HIV Positive College Student had sex with 32 men, without telling them about his positive status
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Knowingly having HIV... having unprotected sex.. is akin to shooting at someone .. so yes.. he absolutely should be imprisoned if found guilty for attempt murder ..
While I tend to agree with you, let's not exaggerate the transmission risk, lest we rehash the worst stupidity of late 1980s thinking on this health problem......
If unprotected sex (which happens probably a trillion+ times a year in the human population) was such an easy vector of transmission, it likely would have decimated the human population by the 1970s (several decades after the first verified infections occurred). I would argue we wasted millions of dollars and thousands of lives scaring the wrong people - and focusing on the wrong things.
Simply put, a man is about 40x more likely to catch HIV from an infected male partner than an infected female partner (it's biology, easy to read up on). Certain things can multiply this risk (stage of infection, other diseases, general health, etc.), but the riskiest behavior one can engage in is unprotected, receptive intercourse. Even then, the odds of transmission are very low for an individual act, but compounded to a near certainty when it becomes a habitual practice (the same can be said for needle-sharing).
Prosecute him, sure - but let's remember that habitual, unprotected receptive sex with positive people is how HIV is spread, not by individual acts of criminal mischief.
Regardless of sex and/or sexuality, knowingly exposing
someone to a serious disease should be a serious felony.
Aggravated assault at the least; murder if the person dies.
If they die he should be charged with reckless/negligent homicide. Otherwise they can sue him. Kind of hard to charge him with no law I know of on transferring STDs.
In your opinion, should Michael Johnson (22) get life in prison for not disclosing his HIV and gonorrhea status, or should he not be sentenced, because after all, his male college partners willingly agreed to have unprotected casual sex with him.
If you have unprotected sex with anyone that you aren't in a long term relationship with at minimum, you're really throwing all concern about your health and wellbeing to the wind each and every time.
It is not "heterosexual sex" that poses the greatest risk for transmission of this disease. Not by a long shot.
And those who simply point to irresponsibility on the part of this guy, I suggest there's something else going on---biotchy mean-spiritedness, as we saw long ago when that dentist knowingly infected his patients.
Anal sex, homosexual or heterosexual, poses the highest risk. Some heterosexual guys like to have anal sex with women and if the man has HIV, those women as just as much at risk.
Heterosexual, buffed, men have sex with gay men. Period. Sorry to bust your bubble of your sheltered, small life.
A lot of the men having sex with men in the United States considered "gay" in the United States would be considered heterosexual in Brazil.
Just like Brazil wouldn't consider Obama black but he's considered black in the United States. "Black" and "gay" are social constructs. Period. Story over with. Every man is bisexual and so is every woman. No one is born heterosexual or homosexual. One tends one way or the other. So, yeah, there are heterosexuals that have sex with gays. Gays being those that predominately have a sexual attraction to the same sex and personally identify as "gay" like I identify as "mulatto" (even though Americans regard me as black and technically their is only one biological race).
One does not have to "pass white" or "pass as straight." Those are cultural notions.
WTF are you talkin about???
LOL.
This is the craziest thing I ever read.
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Those are cultural notions.