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Hepatitis C Information
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Hepatitis C is a blood disease that effects primarily your liver. The potential risks of infecting someone else being blood to blood contact and open wounds. The blood to blood contact is VERY contagious. As the virus of Hep lives outside the body for a longer period of time than even the AIDS virus. To give you an example..today, I use my razor and I nick myself shaving and I bleed. Blood gets on the razor. A week and a half from now, if you cut yourself with that razor, you are at risk of contracting the disease. With that said, any toys with the potential of breaking the skin should be reserved solely for one person. And this is ESPECIALLY true of any toy that is made of any type of porous materials. This would be the safest form of play for anyone! Hepatitis C is NOT a sexually transmitted disease, but there have been (although very few) cases where it has been transmitted sexually.
My Personal List of New Rules to Live By
Never Share:
- Toothbrush
- Razor
- Nail clippers (if you cut so low you risk cutting the skin or bleeding)
Dating and Intimacy
- No Biting
- No scratching
- Abstain during menstruation (this I have taken upon myself now that there is a negative connotation to blood, I can't help but feel this way.)
Kissing
- Not right after brushing teeth
- No open sores or cuts in or around the mouth
- Not if either have a throat infection
- No bleeding gums
- Burns?? Example: Burning the roof of my mouth on pizza would be considered an open wound!
Touching
- No open sores or cuts on hands
- Penetration ok as long as there are no open cuts or sores on hands or genitals and nails don.t scrape
Oral Sex
- No open sores or cuts in or around the mouth or genitals
- Not right after brushing teeth
- Not with a throat infection
- No bleeding gums
Intercourse
- No open sores or cuts in or around the genitals
- Anal sex has more risk
- 99.9% if using condoms
BDSM activities:
- Use own toys
- No breaks or cuts of the skin
- No scratching
- No biting
- Careful with vampire gloves and wartenburg wheel
- Careful with canes and single tail
- No knife play
- No needles (piercing or tattoos)
- If cuts no touching
- Fire? Hot wax?
- Burns would be considered an open wound
Links to share
The Dragons Blood in Me
Hepatitis C and Kissing
Sexual Transmission
Books I Have Read
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The First Year - Hepatitis C
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Cara Bruce and Lisa Montanarelli
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Living with Hepatitis C
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Gregory T. Everson, MD and Hedy Weinberg
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Triumph Over Hepatitis C - An Alternative Medicine Solution
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Lloyd Wright
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