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Technically you’re correct. However, the use of sex toys and rough sex in general undoubtedly increase the risk of AIDS transmission considerably. In the one case of female-to-female AIDS transmission on record (Annals of Internal Medicine, December 1986), “both women had vaginal bleeding as a result of traumatic sexual activities.” Admittedly they had other dangerous habits as well. The woman who had AIDS to start with injected drugs with a needle; the second woman had “digital and oral contact with [the drug user’s] vagina” during the latter’s menstrual period. Cecil would therefore restate his advice to lesbians as follows: avoid rough sex, avoid sex during menstruation, avoid sex when either partner has open sores or tears in the skin, and above all avoid sex with junkies.
