That's one of the things we're told. Viruses are in fact alive. They know how to infect a cell to reproduce themselves.

Ok they're not sentient in the way we or even animals are, but it's becoming acceptable to think of Mother Earth as Gaia, having life energy.

Why not think of viruses then as having some kind of life energy, or even the cell?

If all they were were atoms and molecules, nothing would happen in the chemistry of the body. There would be no pattern or order to what goes on in a body. Everything would dissolve into a mass of maximum entropy or disorder. These things are guided and controlled by life energy that pervades the whole universe that is itself controlled by an intelligence. That's how they manage to get round our best drugs.

Next time you get on a bus or train, feel someone's cold trying to get up your nose.

I'm happy to go along with this as long as we agree that the sun is therefore also living, as are all the other planets - although they may be described as currently dormant. Otherwise this whole gaia idea falls apart and viruses cannot possibly be living.

Anyhow according to conventional biology viruses are not living.

That might be so but with AID's I doubt many people are really as safe thinking as they ought to be.
With a new partner, condoms yes, but how long would you honestly use them for or insist that they are used.
For most couples they'll be back in the drawer quicker than you can say, 'I'am a yankee doodle dandy. The only way to be absolutely sure is for each to get a check-up and how many of us do that....you might know you've been careful but what will you know of your partner?

If truth be told, I reckon most peoples notion of safe love, relates to how clean a person's underwear is. !!

Virus is not an alive particle atleast its how they behave in an external environment.Virus can only reproduce within a host-body.

Viruses are composed of nucleic acid, proteins and, in some cases, lipids as well. Nucleic acid, which can be either DNA or RNA, encodes the genetic information that is necessary to make copies of the virus.

For HIV, its a popular retrovirus containing RNA genome & performs Enzyme Reverse Transcription to change it to DNA.A retrovirus is what replicates via a DNA intermediate & possibly gets destroyed easily with external exposure.

And latex condoms provide an essentially impermeable barrier to particles the size of HIV and other STI pathogens.Polyurethane condoms also provide effective barriers against sperm, bacteria, and viruses such as HIV.So your point is invalid.

I completely trust in safe love. love with an intact condom on cannot transmit any such infections stated above. Its completely safe unless it breaks. Oral love procedures can transmit HIV/HPV/Candida but only if

during open mouth kissing, if both of the partners are having bleeding gum or open sores which is highly unlikely.Giving head with a condom on is completely safe too except HPV. Human Papilloma Virus can be transmitted through casual contact with the infected skin.

Saliva cannot transmit HIV because the virus gets destroyed in stomach pH of 2-4. There are no reported case of HIV transmission through saliva till date.

Virus is a set of intracellular instructions constructed of nucleic acids (amino acid & 1 molecule sugar). This instruction helps them to replicate in host body & extract the enzyme called Reverse Transcriptase. I agree about this with the above post. This is 21 century & we have so many ways to avoid such transmissions- latex condoms, spermicidal (nonoxynol-9) even sometimes PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) in HIV cases (rare & controversial).So I don't believe we should worry much.

I just dip my wick in boiling tar. If it works for gangrene...