Originally posted by CunningLinguist at 4-7-2011 06:09
Seriously?! Is that true? So I can take a girl that I'd just met to one of these clinics, do the suite of tests, and later that day will know for sure if she doesn't have HIV and it would be safe to f ...
I think the confusion here is with infected versus infectious.
The porn industry uses a standard, I believe, of 6 weeks. You have to have a test within the last six weeks to confirm that you're HIV-. The idea being that you can't infect another person, even if you're infected, until your viral load is above a certain (as yet undetermined) level. So even if your new girlfriend just fucked an HIV+ baboon last week, she can't infect you this week if her viral load is so low that it doesn't even show up on today's super duper extra sensitive RNA based tests. At least that's the theory.
All of our intuitions say that even if you get just one HIV virus particle in you that you're going to get AIDS, but that's actually not true. Yes it is theoretically possible, but all infection (whether it's a simple skin rash or tuberculosis or MRSA) is more a game of statistics. You need to be exposed to more than one bug to get the cooties. I don't say that to encourage risky behavior, quite the opposite, while it may take more than one bug, there are plenty of bugs in one wet pussy  But that said, if she tests HIV-, the current thinking is that she's extremely unlikely to pass on HIV to you even if it manifests later from the sweaty dude she fucked a week before you.
Married men beware! While she may test negative for all the really bad stuff, it's unlikely that they test her for HPV, the most common of all STDs. While you'll most likely never get any outward symptoms at all from HPV (a few rare cases develop warts), what it will do is show up on your wife's next pap test and then you're screwed!
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But that said, if she tests HIV-, the current thinking is that she's extremely unlikely to pass on HIV to you even if it manifests later from the sweaty dude she fucked a week before you.