Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!kwee@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu From: kwee@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (kelvin wee) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: Is it attempted Murder? Message-ID: <27595@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 30 Sep 89 09:36:10 GMT References: <27434@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <27585@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: kwee@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (kelvin wee) Organization: University of Oregon Computer Science Dept. Lines: 36 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1276 In article <27585@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> uvm-gen!jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) writes: > >*Everyone* is a carrier of HIV. Or at least, that's what you should >be thinking when you are having sex with someone. I truly find that very offensive. As someone who has abstained for the last eight (8) years, I would be insulted if someone right off the block took the liberty of thinking that I was HIV positive. I think the alternative should be to be safer in your sexual activities and not try to label anybody any more than already is being done by society. In addition, as someone who has tested negative for the last eight years (I get myself tested once a year just before Christmas) I would be very offended by such assumptions. Anyhow, I do not plan to break by vows to the "nunnery" anytime soon, at least not in the next ten or so years because I do have more important things to live for, I would hate for anyone to think or feel that I was HIV positive right when they met me. >It's your life. No one is forcing you to have sex with this person. How true, how true. >If you catch AIDS from them, I think it's pretty much your problem, >not theirs. I beg to differ again. It's both parties problems if one or the other is HIV positive and infects another person. I guess my response is that when one is considering sexual contact with another person, it is only sensible to ALWAYS be safe, or safer as it may be termed, or not have sex at all. After all, as Jay said, it's your life. Don't count on anyone or what they say. Be responsible. Kelvin Wee