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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Is There A Chance Of Having AIDS By Body Massage At Massage Parlour?

Dear Doctor I have a doubt regarding a possible risk situation in which I've been involved recently. Maybe the question is absurd, but I prefer to have an answer from an expert rathen than the information displayed in internet. I'm living in London and in the last week I went to two different massage centers in my area. Both centers were run by Asian women. The massage was a swedish one including everything (neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, legs and arms), then I was nude during the massage. To my surprise, at the end of the massage I was offered to be masturbated by the masseuse. I rejected the offer and the massage was concluded. Yesterday I went to a different massage center (I am suffering from stress and stiffness in the last weeks) to avoid the same behaviour, but again the same offer was done at the end of the massage. Again, I rejected it. Then both situations has happened in the last 6 days. In none of these situations my genital area was touched (only the buttocks, but not the penis, scrotum, or anus). I know that this practise may not even be considered as sexual. However, I am not sure if now I am at risk. I know that AIDS and other viruses can enter to my body through vaginal fluid, blood, saliva (very unlikely)... And I think that in this case the only risk is if the masseuse (providing that was inffected by AIDS or hepatitis) had a bleeding cut on her hands and I had a bleeding cut on my skin too. Is this right? However, every now and then there are microcuts, scratches, micro-ulcerations in the skin that are almost invisible and you're not aware of that!!Then my question is the following: do you consider that now I am at risk?
Wed, 2 Jul 2014
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Hematologist 's  Response
Dont worry at all. you are not at all at risk of hiv. The situation you told is not the cause of infection.if vaginal or seminal fluid contact or direct blood to blood contact was there then only chnce of infection is thare.otherwise you are safe. So relax.no need to worry.
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Is There A Chance Of Having AIDS By Body Massage At Massage Parlour?

Dont worry at all. you are not at all at risk of hiv. The situation you told is not the cause of infection.if vaginal or seminal fluid contact or direct blood to blood contact was there then only chnce of infection is thare.otherwise you are safe. So relax.no need to worry.