Skip to main content  Is it safe for him to taste my menstrual
blood?  Share | theredmarker asks:   Heather Corinna replies:
Yes, there are health risks associated with ingesting or being
exposed to menses, because this is both fluid sharing and also
blood sharing, even though menses is more than just blood.
Overall, what you're looking at are the risks associated with
unprotected -- without a latex barrier like a condom or dental
dam between -- oral sex. Unprotected oral sex, and oral exposure
to another person's body fluids, presents a risk of a person
contracting or transmitting the following sexually transmitted
infections:  Generally, unprotected oral sex with a receptive
partner who has a vagina is considered to be lower risk for the
transmission of many STIs than is unprotected oral sex with a
receptive partner who has a penis. However, once blood is
inserted into the mix, you are often looking at higher risks of
fluid-transmitted STIs -- like Hepatitis and HIV -- than you
would be otherwise. In fact