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A dumb question about HIV/AIDS

...I don't need anyone reminding me to use condoms, I take that as a given anyway :p:

Obviously as a woman you can catch HIV if semen comes into contact with a tear/cut in the vagina, however...

Theoretically if a woman had sex with a man with HIV, he came inside her BUT there was no 'open wound' as it were, would there still be a high risk of her catching it?

Nothing Google throws up makes it particularly clear...
afaik (some areas of) the vagina is permeable enough to permit HIV without an actual cut
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rock_eleven
afaik (some areas of) the vagina is permeable enough to permit HIV without an actual cut


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