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Condoms and AIDS
Are condoms only prone to AIDS if it's broken? I mean, if sperm doesn't reach you, would you still get AIDS?
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Condoms are effective against the transmission of HIV/AIDS in so far as they maintain a physical barrier that prevents contact between live blood, semen and vaginal fluids. If the condom remains intact/unbroken then the barrier is not compromised and they protect very effectively. So, as you say, the sperm "does not reach you" and you will not have the virus. The virus cannot somehow pass through the condom of it's own accord, it can only be carried in the live body fluids we've mentioned. And once any of these fluids have 'dried and died' they cannot support the virus either. It's not a very robust or 'tough' virus at all, and cannot be transmitted in airborne water droplets like, say a flu virus. It doesn't live in water, sweat, saliva, faeces (aka poo) or urine either for that matter. And of course, if your partner wasn't HIV-positive anyway then you can't get it whatever you do or did with him or his sperm. Condoms are just about the surest way to prevent pregnancy. Condoms are also very effecive indeed against transmission of HIV which is why you'll see so many advisors here saying how essential it is to use one with partners of unknown sexual history, and especially casual/unplanned sex. Naturally they have to be put on before any sort of penetration occurs, and stay on until completion, and the guy has withdrawn his penis, if they are to be sure to prevent either pregnancy or HIV. So always be safe, and no starting off without a condom intendimg to put one on before he 'cums', for instance, please. And while we're on the subject, because of the more fragile, and easily damaged or abraded, nature of the tissue in your rectum/back passge, anal sex without a condom is an extremely high-risk activity. So don't even THINK about it unless you're very sure indeed of the status and sexual history of your patner. Unless there's absolutley no chance at all he is HIV+, insist on a condom and don't give in to persuasion. There's no risk of pregnancy without one, true. But There's a very real risk of infection. Hope my reply might be of help to you? Stay safe.
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