However if a person had the mens rea (is that the word?) to set out and infect someone, that is a criminal act IMHOP.

Generally speaking though I think you probably have a moral obligation to disclose to a sexual partner something that you reasonably believe that they would want to know that is sexually related and may affect their health and/or their decision to want to have sex with you.

If you know that they may not want to have sex with you if they found out you are married, morally speaking you should probably tell them.

Same with HIV status. Minimizing the risk by 94% does not minimize the risk to zero which would be the risk status if a person chose to not have sex with you.


>by making failure to disclose poz status before sex a
>criminal act. i think such laws are completely abhorrent and
>that they only act to increase HIV stigma and don't actually
>encourage the desired behavior - disclosure of poz status.
>
>so i'm glad that this guy hasn't been criminally charged for
>his conduct, AFAIK.
>
>and now that HIV has become such a manageable disease and ppl
>who get treatment are often able to reduce their viral loads
>to undetectable which grossly decreases the chance that they
>will infect anyone...why are we still freaking out about HIV?
>i assume it's b/c ppl aren't aware of the advances in medz.
>also, those of us who are negative can take PREP and if we
>have sex w/a poz partner w/an undetectable viral load the risk
>of transmission is reduced by 92%. so why panic?
>
>it's not a death sentence. it hasn't been for yrs. we need
>to chill.


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