Avoid sex practices that involve sharing body fluids. Nearly all safer sex guidelines come down to this, the most important single bit advice. That’s because HIV is spread when blood, semen or vaginal secretions from somebody who’s infected come into direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of somebody who’s not infected.

HIV concentrations are highest in semen, breast milk and blood, including menstrual blood. HIV has also been found, in much lower concentrations, in women’s genital secretions. It sometimes found in saliva, in very low concentrations. And it has not been found at all in urine, sweat or feces.

Always use condoms. The best choice: lubricated latex condoms that are impregnated with spermicide nonoxynol-9. Lambskin condoms may feel good, but they don’t protect against HIV because they’re perforated with microscopic holes large enough to allow HIV to pass through. When a condom is lubricated, it’s protected against rips and tears and doesn’t break as easily as an unlubricated one. And nonoxyol-9 has been shown – at least under laboratory conditions – to kill HIV on contact. Women now have another option, the female condom, marketed under the brand name Reality and available in drugstore for about $2 apiece. But whatever kind of condoms you use, it’s important to use then consistently, even time you make love, not just when you feel like it.

this is an example of latex condom

this an example of female condom

If you use lubricant, make sure it’s water-based product, not an oil-based one. Oil-based lubricants cause latex to rapidly disintegrate into a gummy mess that offers no protection against AIDS (or pregnancy, for that matter). Contact with petroleum products destroys condoms. Don’t use: Crisco, baby oil, cold cream, Vaseline or certain vaginal creams like Monistat, Premarin or Vagisil. Do use; K-Y Jelly, saliva, spermicidal creams or commercial lubricants like Astroglide, Lubraseptic or Lubafax.

this is the Astroglide commercial lubricants

When is it to stop using condoms in a relationship? That’s the 100,000 dollar question.

If you’ve been in a monogamous relationship for six months, and you’ve both tested and certain you’re HIV negative, I’d say it’s probably okay to stop using condoms. Of course, you still can’t be absolutely certain you’re safe.

Two possibilities why you can’t be absolutely sure you’re safe in such a relationship: The body develops antibodies HIV (which is what the test measures) usually somewhere between two weeks and three months after exposure. You could have been tested after you were infected but before antibodies appeared (which means the test would have been negative). Or else one of you picked up the virus from somebody else after both of you were tested.

In this advance time we are very much prone to different kinds of sickness, there is a proverb saying “it’s better to prevent than to cure.” I still have the 2^nd issue for safer sex guidelines, wait for it.

Is it safe to do sexual intercourse with my girlfriend when she’s having her menstruation?

Surely menstrual blood is no more magic than any other kind of blood. But there may actually be a bit of wisdom behind these ancient taboos. Normally, as a protective mechanism against bacterial invasion, the vagina stays fairly acidic (pH of 3.5 to 4.0). But during menstruation, blood’s higher alkalinity slightly reduces the vagina’s acidity (to a pH of 5.0 or so), making it more susceptible to vaginal infections. Menstrual blood flow also flushes away some of the mucus that normally plugs the cervix, making it easier for microbes to invade the uterus and the deeper reproductive regions.

If neither partner is infected with anything, there’s no reason to worry that making love during her period will increase the risk of infection. But if he already has an infection, the couple should abstain from sex during her period. (Serious vaginal infections generally make themselves known by itching, burning, an unpleasant odor or vaginal discharge; they should be seen by a doctor right away.)

If the woman is carrying around some minor-league vaginal infection, her mate also runs a small risk of picking up urethritis – a painful, although usually not serious, infection of the urethra, or urinary drainpipe. The most serious worry of all, though, is AIDS. Since having sex during menstruation directly exposes the male to potentially infected blood, if she is a carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) she must not have sex during her period.

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