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Good advice for the single sistahs who may have boyfriends/sig others but as I wrote to the Keith Boykins fellow, what about women who are married? Also, I am sick of hearing that this is some ploy to take responsibility off of heterosexual women who have lost their "Get out of AIDS free card, now" and the fact thatw e are not empowered to make sexual decisions that affect our lives when one of the main tenets of empowerment is OPEN COMMUNICATION. So if I ask my husband if he is having ANY extramarital affairs and he says no, I'm pissed. When those extramarital affairs ups the ante on me being infected with HIV, I'm doubly pissed because he LIED!!!This also robs me of my right to exercise my empowerment to the fullest.
I agree with the "strap it up" sentiment but I really don't think that DL men empathize with a women who has been married for 14 years and has had three kids with a man who leaves her for another man. It's bothersome not to mention risky.
Also, HIV transmission from males to females occurs more effectively than from females to males. This greater risk seems to be true for most sexually transmitted diseases: the female is at greater risk. ("Receptive partner" can be substituted for "female" in case of homosexual sex) A male's exposure to the female (or receptive partner) is fleeting; but the male leaves potentially contaminated semen in the vagina. Usually the semen remains in the female long after intercourse is over. The longer a person is exposed to germs, the more likely he or she is to catch the disease.
Male to female: If the male is infected, he deposits HIV-infected semen inside the female's vagina. Again, previously it was thought that inside a female's vagina, small wounds and bleeding may occur during sex or for a number of reasons, providing a doorway for HIV into the bloodstream. Bleeding wounds inside the vagina are probably not necessary.
Additionally, HIV is founf in higher concentrations in semen compared to vaginal fluids. Not that it doesn't happen but DANG!!!
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