well she has dark skin and HIV so that's hardly a scientific test.

personally i think id stay away from x blue peter presenters to me that's more of a stigma than HIV, but saying that, konnie from what i have seen of her seems like a pretty cool laid back person so id probably kiss her.

Here's my conflict, and forgive me if this sounds completely ignorant.

When I was in school, a presenter came into my health class acting all cocky and asked us how we could get HIV, going down a list. Sex? We all said yes. Sharing needles? Obviously, yes. High fiving? We scoffed and said no. Kissing? A good portion of the class said 'no' and he threw on his best 'GOTCHA!' face and asked us this simple question: "How many of you have ever had a canker sore or brushed your teeth and had your gums bleed a little?"

Nearly all of us agreed that we'd all had this, and it was possible to swap blood with a French kiss. In my mind, I'm totally accepting of people with HIV and AIDs. One of the regulars at my house has HIV and it's never presented a problem. We shake hands, share food and bathroom, etc. Him having HIV has never prevented us from having normal interaction with him, because it shouldn't.

I just wish people could give me a definitive answer on this before calling it 'stigma' and not 'caution'. The reason I don't kiss people with HIV or AIDs isn't because I'm afraid, it's because I'm uneducated (and the first one to admit it) and not dumb enough to make those decisions without safe research.

Someone please educate me.

the reason its hard to get it through kissing is because its hard to be infected through your stomach the virus if you had open cut on your face and they also had a cut on there face then they rubbed together there is a chance you could get it still be pritty slim thogh.

the reason people are over coursouse about it is because HIV is associated with the whole "ware protection" and falls under one of the reasons that is propagandized to ware contraception and is presented as if you catch HIV instantly 100% of the time from any contact.

now fact is people should ware contraceptoin as it dose reduce the chances of catching aids sugnificantly , but at the same time you dont just catch aids instantly normaly (although you can) and its far more infectious sexually (vigorous rubbing of the desize against a thin membrane) than it is from other contacts (softly touching against thick skin or stumuch designed to repel viruses , desize, bacteria). Like other STD,s sex is its primary mode of spreading you can still catch other things outside of sex its just normally allot harder.

but from a proper sloppy kiss it would be near imposable. you have to drink over a pint of infected saliva to catch it.


If you could catch it through normal human contact and kissing it would spred like The flue dose , or like sore throughts do , We would be totaly fucked , its actualy resnably hard to catch it , outside of Sex , sharing needels , direct blood contact.

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If Konnie Huq wanted to fuck me I wouldn't ask any questions. The Huq > Aids.

mmm....konnie huq....nom...nom...nom...belly...nom...nom.

Yes if I wanted to get HIV.

No. Not even if you don't have HIV, I'm married and would like to stay that way.

As mentioned above, if both parties have a cut in their mouths, there's real risk. Because you can't possibly know that you don't have any tiny open cuts in your mouth/throat, it's a stupid risk to take, since the consequence is so dire (and please don't say that HIV isn't a death sentence today...it is, you just have longer thanks to better, expensive drugs).
What wasn't mentioned above was, people with HIV have compromised immune systems, so even if you believe you can't get HIV, you could certainly get whatever else they've contracted because of their weak immune system. Again, there's no way for them to know what they might have, even if they were JUST "tested" (some diseases are communicable before they show positive in tests, some tests take days or weeks for results, by which time they're invalid, some diseases can't be tested for, and you can't possibly test for everything).

Chances are good that you would be OK. The same could be said for many dangerous activities that people avoid because of a slight risk of the totally unacceptable happening.
But, I'm the type that won't share a joint, fork, drink, or bong with friends either. 1/4 of people have Herpes, and I have no way to know which one. Screw that!