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ORIGINAL: Voltare

It would seem the chances of HIV being transmitted from one woman to another through 'normal' sexual interaction are less than being hit by lightning.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/women/resources/factsheets/wsw.htm

http://www.thebody.com/apla/apr00/lesbians.html

In most cases of HIV in lesbians, the woman identifies the source of the disease to be from a male.

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MistressSassy:  Bodily fluids are bodily fluids whether it man or Woman.

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  MistressSassy, again:  I would imagine there are a few cases where women that are drug users infected their partner(as in same sex).
 
Lesbians on occasion lick some pussy...I'm pretty sure thats a bodily fluid..so common sense would tell you lesbians can catch and spread HIV.

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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956

This is to the OP, and everyone who posted, but I'll take off from MistressSassy's comments because they are a bit misleading.

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MistressSassy:  Bodily fluids are bodily fluids whether it man or Woman.

Well, yes and no.  The titration of HIV varies widely from infected person to infected person, and one factor (albeit fairly low down on the list) is gender; men appear to have higher concentrations of the virus in their blood, but this is most likely an artifact of the time of diagnosis, which is critical.  HIV concentrates in early infection, drops down, and then explodes in late infection.  Semen is also a concentrated vector for the virus, but of course you can't do M to F comparisons of virus volume there.  Breast milk appears to be a vector, but in MUCH lower concentrations.  I have never read about vaginal fluid as a vector, or how concentrated the virus is.   And if you are talking about the effectiveness of carrying HIV, bodily fluids ain't all the same:  Urine is not a vector/stomach acid is not a vector, and saliva is in question, although in infected people the virus is definitely present in the mouth.  Conversely, blood is a significant vector.  Cerebral-spinal fluid is also a significant vector.

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  MistressSassy, again:  I would imagine there are a few cases where women that are drug users infected their partner(as in same sex).
 
Lesbians on occasion lick some pussy...I'm pretty sure thats a bodily fluid..so common sense would tell you lesbians can catch and spread HIV.

If you are looking at sexual preference/behavior, Lesbians are probably the least significant vector, and oral-genital lesbian sex barely figures in.   A more likely cause of an F to F infection is fisting or other activity where an infected person exposes their blood (the most likely vector) to the mucosa or other infectable areas of their partner.  The mouth is a relatively hostile place for HIV, and oral-genital contact is not near as effective a vector for transmission as, say, rough genital or anal contact.

All that said, the danger of HIV, and the consequences of infection, are still so great as to require barrier sex in ANY risk situation.  But in fact, not all fluids, or vectors, are equal.
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When scientists first recognized the syndrome in 1981 initially they termed it Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a possible source for the misconception holding that AIDS infects only homosexual men; scientists soon renamed the disease in recognition of transmission other than by male-male intercourse.

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Sassy - 'common sense' fifteen years ago suggested that you could get AIDS by kissing or using a public drinking fountain or toilet.  The odds of a woman getting HIV through oral sex with another woman are still less than getting struck by lightning.

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ORIGINAL: MistressSassy66

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Sassy - 'common sense' fifteen years ago suggested that you could get AIDS by kissing or using a public drinking fountain or toilet.  The odds of a woman getting HIV through oral sex with another woman are still less than getting struck by lightning.

 
 
 
When I was 17 I had an incident with a Lightning strike.I know about statistics.
I am merely pointing out that the POSSIBILITY is there.
To say there is little chance may be correct to discount completely your playing with fire.
To think just because someone is a Lesbian that you cant get HIV/AIDS or some other STD is closed minded.Even if that Woman has never been with a man.Drug use is huge contributer to the HIV epidemic.
 
To put it simply "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
In some cases there is no cure so Isn't it  better to "be safe than sorry"?

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I'm not suggesting it's impossible - clearly it is.  A woman who is menstruating, or has a bleeding wound is capable of passing the disease on to a woman with an open sore or cut on her mouth, or in any setting where blood or vaginal secretions are exchanged.  The issue, though, is one of probability and the potential social damage done by over exaggerating risks of any behavior.  If it's really lives you're intent on saving, you'd be better off advocating the use of seatbelts for women - more die unnaturally of car crashes than any other cause; breast cancer certainly looms much higher in real risks as well.