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Issue 198: July 2010 - Are lubricants safe?

The ‘lubes’ used most often in sex may actually make HIV transmission more likely. Gus Cairns explores some unnerving new findings from the 2010 International Microbicides Conference.

“Four of the water-based lubricants completely stripped off the epithelium (outer layer) of cells from rectal tissue. In contrast, PRÉ and Wet Platinum caused relatively little damage. Astroglide caused almost as much damage as nonoxynol-9, the spermicide that has already been shown to double the risk of HIV infection.”

Peer reviewed version: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23144863