[Colonel Kataffy]

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i'm curious on how much the risk changes with condom use

Melch

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Wikipedia claims an 85 percent reduction in HIV transmission. Althought I could swear health professionals generally cite a 99 percent plus effectiveness rate, whatever that's supposed to mean.

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I'm not gonna look up the wikipedia article. However, I studied HIV a bit in undergrad and I will say that HIV is not easy to transmit with vaginal sex, whether condomed or not. There generally needs to some sort of sore, like herpes, to allow a blood exchange. With a condom, mere intercourse is extremely unlikely to spread HIV. There are lots of documented case studies of hookers in southeast comparing ones that always use condoms and ones that don't always, and the always hookers do very well health wise.