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From: kwee@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (kelvin wee)
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Subject: Re: Is it attempted Murder?
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Date: 30 Sep 89 09:36:10 GMT
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In article <27585@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> uvm-gen!jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) writes:
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>*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