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Two days ago, I was at a male strip club. I had chapped lips. My lips did not have any wide open cuts, but because they were chapped, there were a couple small openings with my blood being exposed to the environment.
A dancer put his hands on my face to caress it. His hands also touched my lips and might have come into contact with the openings in my chapped lip. His hands were moist with what might have been sweat. But I keep thinking the moisture could have been from something else, like semen. This particular dancer did not seem very careful. He could have put his hands on his privates and got semen on them that way (although I did not see hime do this). What sort of exposure have I had to the HIV virus? I know my chances of getting it are greater with unprotected sex or needle sharing. But what I went through still seems like a risk. What can you tell me?
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A few minutes later, he touched my shoulder, which I inadvertently rubbed with my cheek. A couple of hours later, I washed my face with my hands. My right hand had several cuts on it from a cat scratch a couple of days before. They were mostly healed, but one of them could have been partially open and exposed. I put alchohol-based hand sanitizer on my hands and cheek before I washed my face. My question is: can I get HIV from this typ of scenario. What if I were to shake hands with somebody with body fluid on there hand and I had a cut on mine?
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