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I think someone should be prosecuted if they knowing past along the virus. I believe you should always wear a condom regardless, but if you know for a fact that you are positive, why not just put on a condom to protect yourself and others? There are those who do not want to be discriminated against but at the same time don't mind giving you a reason to discriminate against them! Go fiqure!
Unfortunately, the prospect that you may transmit the virus is not a sufficient deterrent. And then, once it is transmitted, it is too late for the VICTIM, law or no law. This is what happened to me. However, in my state, it is only illegal to keep your status a secret if you have sex with a pro. Go figure.
To "blackchicago40", I'm out to everyone about my HIV status; my friends, my family, my co-workers. Every online dating profile I create includes my HIV-positive status, even when there is no specific, pre-set question about it. Why do I do this when I know that there is a very real possibility that someone could use this information against me? So that there is no information that anyone could ever use against me. Because I'm out to EVERYONE, and because every online profile I create includes my HIV status, it's highly unlikely that a court of law could be convinced that I withheld that information from a romantic partner. People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. People who hide something from someone, probably hide it from someone else, as well.
Now we are constantly being told that we have to tell potential partners that we are positive or else face prosecution, but what about those who threaten to use that information against you? I was dating someone who I told that I was positive. After a few months, he wanted to have sex with my 15 y.o. daughter. When I told him that I was going to report him to the police, he told me that he was gonna tell them that I never told him that I was positive, and unfortunately, aside from my word, there is no proof that I told him. What should happen to people like him?
DJ
I think it is just as criminal for anyone to have sex without disclosing to each other the following (without protection): "I disclose the fact that both of us are having un-protected sex and that both of us has the possibility of transmitting a STD to one another whether we know it or not and we both should be prosecuted criminally if don't protect one another". Personal Responsibility Rules!
March 5, 2010