100% Safe Sex??

I'm currently reading a book about Bi-sexual women, it a series of interviews set out in Q&A format, anyway, I have been quite suprised at the lengths some people go to to attain "100% safe sex". I have never heard of people using rubber gloves for mutual masturabation or cling film (plastic food wrap) for oral sex before.

I was about 10 or 11 when safe sex TV programmes were shown (demonstrating the use of condoms etc and explaining how the virus spreads) to combat the AIDS issue and no mention was made of going to such lengths.
I am by no means a naive person and I just wondered how many other people here had heard of this and what they think about it. Do you think it is taking things abit too far? Does it not take the spontanaity and alot of the feeling out the whole experience?

 

I've never heard of rubber gloves used, but I have heard of "dental dams" used for oral sex. I think it's a little extreme, but I guess you can never be too careful...

Peace and love

 

i started using dental dams years ago cuz i'm a vegan and i don't wanna swap spit with anyone who eats meat cuz it has meat juices in it and then i wouldn't be a vegan anymore but the dental dams are good for preventing stp's too

 

If I had to go to those lengths, I think I would just abstain. Dental dams were mentioned in the book but most agreed that they did'nt like using them because they are thick and chalky, reducing sensation considerably.

 

just depends on what level of risk you want to expose yourself to. I mean crossing a busy road gives u a 1:4000 chance of being runover.

lot harder to quantify risk in terms of sexual transmission of disease though.

however here's a rough guide for decreasing risk of sexual activity in terms of picking up HIV

Anal sex (most dangerous when infected male ejaculates - simplistically speaking reason being the rectal mucosa is simple columnar i.e. has only one layer of cells that act as a barrier to the HIV virus as opposed to skin say in vagina which is stratified squamous = many more laters = better barrier)

Vaginal Sex (male infected is a much greater risk then female infected. risk higher if sex occurs in menstruation where female infected)

Oral Sex (hard to pin this figure down as often oral sex goes hands in hand with other sexual penetrative activity). protective enzymes in saliva goes along way to neutralizing HIV.

anything else is pretty much very unlikely to pass on HIV.