Former child star Danny Pintauro is, as you’ve likely seen, on some kind of speaking tour lately, talking about his HIV infection and former meth addiction and a lot of other stuff.
He gave an interview to US Magazine earlier this week in which he insisted that he contracted HIV orally, via lesions in his mouth, which sounds spurious given the statistical chances, but who knows.
Now he gives this other interview that you can watch above to HIV Equal in which he talks about going down the “dark road” of meth addiction, which seems to have happened after he got into bondage and after finding a “gorgeous” dom top who fucked him real good who happened to whip out some tina one night and told him to try it.
Also, he talks about PrEP, and why he thinks everybody needs to keep using condoms even if they’re on it because of syphilis and blah blah.
I commend Danny for being so open. I don’t see why some guys find it so implausible that we can be infected through oral sex (keyword: SEX). The CDC states infection through oral SEX is quite possible. It’s also rather unnecessary to belittle his PrEP stance. What he’s saying is exactly what the manufacturers of the drugs recommend as well. God forbid Danny suggest we learn from his mistakes and go about things more responsibly. The HORROR!
Every Poz HIV educater I’ve known, even if they got it from butt sex or sharing needles (some of the gay ones didn’t know one way or the other, since they were doing both), have made points of saying things like “don’t give blow jobs within ten minutes after brushing your teeth.” It sertainly ssems plausible; if my gums bleed after simple oral hygiene …
A lot of people seem to contract HIV through oral sex if you ask them how they became infected. I guess they don’t want to look stupid and ignorant…