MACS wrote:Joel, as you can probably understand given our reputation for "any port in a storm", sailors are required to attend training about STD's (including all those disgusting pictures of infected genitalia). We were taught that the HIV virus does not survive outside the body, so while it would be easier for a man to transmit it to a woman through seminal fluid which remains inside the body, it is still possible for a woman to transfer it to a man, though much less likely.
I understand that from a scientific aspect - on paper - it is possible... however, as i stated- a VERY long conversation with a woman who is widely respected within the medical community, specifically within the studies of infectious diseases, made a very compelling argument as to why it is essentially possible only on paper and not in reality...