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How is it ignorant? It's the careless that get AIDS. If you protect yourself, your risk is 0 as a heterosexual and very slim as a homosexual. Wrap it up and you won't get AIDS, don't stick needles and you won't get AIDS.
How is it ignorant? It's the careless that get AIDS. If you protect yourself, your risk is 0 as a heterosexual and very slim as a homosexual. Wrap it up and you won't get AIDS, don't stick needles and you won't get AIDS.
I'd further explain why that other comment is pure ignorance, but I'd rather not waste my time.
How is it ignorant? It's the careless that get AIDS. If you protect yourself, your risk is 0 as a heterosexual and very slim as a homosexual. Wrap it up and you won't get AIDS, don't stick needles and you won't get AIDS.
It's one thing to talk about protecting yourself from HIV in today's time, but the point is that there are people who currently have it and contracted it through no fault of their own. There are people who got it back in the 80s who are still alive today. If your husband/wife cheats on you and infects you, is that your fault?
Break it off because he wasn't honest from day #1! Has nothing to do with the disease and everything to do with covering up the truth. Trust is everything.
You obviously don't have a disease or disorder. I do, and although it's genetic and non-communicable it's still extremely stressful to tell a potential partner. So far, I've only had 2 men stick around after I told them, the rest disappeared. Is it their prerogative? Sure. Does it hurt horribly? Yes. I can't even imagine having something communicable if men aren't even willing to stick around with something they absolutely can't catch and doesn't affect them in any way.
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Originally Posted by capitol
How is it ignorant? It's the careless that get AIDS. If you protect yourself, your risk is 0 as a heterosexual and very slim as a homosexual. Wrap it up and you won't get AIDS, don't stick needles and you won't get AIDS.
When I was younger, the medication I took was derived from chord blood. There was a small chance that I could acquire any blood born diseases including HIV or Hepatitis. I was tested every three months until I was in my late teens and they switched to a synthetic medication. I guess people who get HIV from transfusions or medication are careless as well.
Like the people who got HIV because they made a mistake somehow deserve it? Who cares HOW a person contracted it? I'm glad everyone has been snow white their whole lives and never ever screwed up in anyway. Hoping you all get what I'm saying. The stigma of HIV is one of its strongest allies.
Would you date someone with Hepatitis? Herpes? HPV? All are far easier to transmit than HIV.
With that said, I am a gay man and have dated three guys who were positive. Not everyone is comfortable with it, and I can understand that. Great guys they are, and I'm glad I didn't miss out on them due to fear.
FWIW: A 25 year old diagnosed with HIV today in US or Western Europe has a similar life expectancy and quality of life similar to that of non-infected 25 year olds. It's a dangerous virus, but treatable; and getting more so all the time.
I hope that he told you he was HIV+ BEFORE you began being intimate. I don't think I would continue the relationship, it would be too scary to me. I would always be worried and wondering if I had contracted it. I can't help but wonder if he is so wonderful, barely drinks etc. how he got it to begin with? That would make a difference to me as well, was he an IV drug user, did he sleep around a lot, was he with a man or what.
How is it ignorant? It's the careless that get AIDS. If you protect yourself, your risk is 0 as a heterosexual and very slim as a homosexual. Wrap it up and you won't get AIDS, don't stick needles and you won't get AIDS.
Heterosexual men are at the lowest risk for catching HIV.
To catch HIV as a heterosexual you have to practically sleep with tens and hundreds of thousands of people to catch it.
Bisexual men, homosexual men, IV drug abusers and the people who sleep with these people are at the highest risk.
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