Nowadays, the 'sharing economy' has spread to the silicone doll sector. The business of dressing up silicone dolls as real people to provide "services" to customers is known as "adult experience".

According to Xinhua News Agency, in the last two years, the "adult experience" business has become increasingly popular in some cities, where you can experience the sexual services provided by silicone dolls for just a couple of hundred dollars.

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This kind of erotic service may seem more secure and safe, but is it? Let's put other issues aside for a moment and talk about the health risks involved.

When it comes to sex, the topic of HIV is inescapable. So, is it possible to contract HIV through this "adult experience"?

Some of the silicone dolls in the "experiential museum" are disposable and can be taken away after use, which is relatively safe; however, more of them are shared by multiple people.

The silicone dolls are simulated and have folds in the cavity, which can be difficult to clean. Moreover, the sterilisation of sexually transmitted disease viruses requires professional medical sterilisation methods, including high temperatures and medical sterilisation solutions to inactivate them, and the material of silicone dolls does not have such sterilisation conditions. From a health and hygiene point of view, shared use does theoretically pose a risk if cleaning and disinfection is not done properly, as HIV can survive outside the body.

In liquids at room temperature (25°C) to 37°C, HIV can remain viable for infection for about 14 days; at room temperature, it can survive for 24 hours on the surface of clothing, tissue paper and other absorbent materials; and on the surface of smooth, non-absorbent materials (e.g. plastic, silicone), it can survive for more than 48 hours.

HIV survives easily in a liquid state but is afraid of drying out, so exposing contaminated items to sunlight or leaving them at room temperature for a long time to dry out as much as possible is an effective way to prevent HIV transmission. However, in a 'sharing' business model, such methods are difficult to implement, so the fear of having HIV alive in silicone dolls is not an overwhelming concern.

However, we need to understand that the presence of live HIV does not necessarily mean that we will be infected; HIV infection requires three main elements to be met.

1) Entry points into the body, such as skin wounds, mucosal wounds in the digestive tract, genital tract and rectal mucosa.

2) A high-risk exchange of body fluids, such as semen, blood, etc., with a person with HIV.

3) A certain amount of virus must be present in the body fluids.

All three of these elements must be met before an HIV-infected person can transmit the virus to others. If during unprotected intercourse, semen or vaginal secretions contain high levels of HIV (the virus in body fluids must reach a certain amount), the female vagina continuously secretes body fluids or the male semen remains in the vagina or rectum for a long time (high risk body fluid exchange with HIV patients), then HIV can enter the male body through the opening at the tip of the penis, or through the mucous membrane between the vagina and the cervix This is when HIV can enter a woman's body through the opening at the tip of the penis or through the mucous membrane between the vagina and the cervix (the entry point into the body), where the chance of HIV infection is higher.

Here again, the importance of wearing a condom has to be stressed.

However, you may also have the question: if a condom breaks during the use of a silicone doll, can it be infected with HIV?

Theoretically, if a silicone doll contains the semen of an HIV-infected person, is not exposed to air, and is used again by the next user within a short period of time, and it so happens that the condom breaks and the genitals of the next user come into contact with the semen of an HIV-infected person, there is a real risk of infection, but the probability of it happening is extremely low and almost impossible in a single incident. To date, there have been no known cases of HIV infection from sharing sex toys.

Data source: CDC
Aside from condom breakage, there are other concerns you may have, so here are a few very representative questions to answer.

1) Can I get HIV from sleeping in a bed someone else has slept in?

No. HIV needs to pass through blood or mucous membranes to invade the body, so if you have no wounds on your body and are sleeping in bed, it is impossible to get infected.

2) Can I get HIV by kissing the lips or breasts of a silicone doll at the Experience?

No. Some components in saliva can inhibit the activity of HIV, and there is a thick layer of epithelial cells in the mouth that makes it difficult for HIV to invade. There is also no need to worry if there is an open wound in the mouth because even if the silicone doll is contaminated with HIV, it will quickly deactivate in dry air.

3) Can I get HIV if I touch someone's bodily fluids if I have barbs on my hands?

No. The wounds we are referring to are generally fresh, bleeding wounds. Wounds such as crusted wounds, peeling skin and lacerations actually have healed tissue surfaces and cannot be infected by contact with the other person's bodily fluids.

4) Can I get infected if I get prostate fluid or semen from an HIV-infected person on my clothes? Can I still wear my clothes after washing them with laundry detergent?

No. You can still wear your clothes. There is no entry point for the virus to enter your body so you will not get infected. Laundry detergent has a bactericidal effect, and drying and UV light can disable HIV infection.

5) Will I get HIV if I touch the other person's prostate fluid on my hand, wash my hand with water for 10 minutes and then accidentally pick my finger on my gum?

No. The in vitro viability of HIV infection is determined by acting under laboratory conditions for 5-6 hours. Although the theoretical inference is that there is a risk of infection, there have been no real-life reports of infection through contamination with HIV body fluids or blood left outside the body, and the US CDC also classifies HIV exposed to air as non-transmissible.

In this scenario, although the prostate fluid contains more HIV, the vast majority of it has been washed away with water, your hands are dry after ten minutes and HIV has almost lost its ability to infect you at this point, and when your gums bleed, the contact time between your hands and the bleeding location is so short that infection does not occur.

So for your safety you can choose to buy a sex doll, she can be a large breast sex doll, mini sex doll etc you can choose according to your preference