Is it ignorance?
One in seven babies breast-fed by infected
mothers gets HIV.

A better question would be:

Why would you want to drink breast milk from a stranger?

nearly everything we do here has risks.

For me, and I'm sure many others who won't say so, it is an incredible rush, to say nothing of being an honor.

. . . drink human milk than other animals' milk, but that's another thread.

On the other hand, I would feel like taking food from the baby.

-- Modified on 8/18/2006 10:24:49 AM

Baseless charges like this make me so mad I could just jump over the moon!

A mother can't pass on HIV to her baby IF SHE'S NOT INFECTED WITH HIV.

I may have come late to the party but what the hell prompted this question, is there a provider with HIV out there who gives milk showers.  If so, the better question is why you would want to see her.

I don't see AIDS speading like wild-fire through the hobby community, and that is thousands of times more popular that your breast-milk fetish... better go back to your lab Dexter, until you've got the science a little more figured out....

Assumptions behind what you wrote:

1) That providers aren't getting themselves tested.

2) That they have HIV and ignore the symptoms.

3) That they're feeding their infants breast milk regardless.  

So, is from ignorance or sarcasm that you pose that question?  

But the chance of transmission through oral sex is very low.  I guess because adult saliva is quite different than infant's saliva.  I don't know of studies on oral sex with swallowing, but I have noticed that it looks like countries where oral sex is in the culture and practiced there are low rates of HIV, in cultures where it's not, the incident is high.  That is just my observation, it's not backed up by studies.

...as I'm alergic to HIV/