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Safe Sex
   
No risk or very low risk - No reported cases due to these behaviors
  • Masturbation - mutual masturbation
  • Touching - massage
  • Erotic massage - body rubbing
  • Kissing
  • Oral sex on a man with a condom
  • Oral sex on a woman with a dental dam, Glyde dam, plastic wrap, or cut-open condom
  • Not sharing drug injecting, body piercing instruments, needles, syringes
  • Using properly sterilized hospital tools

Low risk - Rare reported cases due to these behaviors

  • Deep kissing
  • Oral sex
  • Vaginal intercourse with a condom or female condom
  • Anal intercourse with a condom (Try not to get semen or blood into the mouth or on broken skin.)

High risk - Hundreds of thousands of reported cases are associated with the following.

  • Vaginal intercourse without a condom
  • Anal intercourse without a condom
  • Sharing needles, syringes and other body piercing instruments

 

 
     
 

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