For years, Tennessee has required anyone convicted of prostitution while HIV-positive to register as a sex offender for life. In response to DOJ and ACLU discrimination suits, the state has agreed to reverse course.
How I personally feel about people who aren’t careful about spreading hiv is different than what I think policy should be. Policy should be what works to prevent the spread of illness. Sometimes that means doing “nice” things for people whose choices we despise.
Did you completely skip the article or do you think that sex workers with HIV should be automatically marked as sex offenders?
I think that anyone with HIV who engages in sexual activity for any reason without explicit fully-informed consent is reprehensible.
How would you feel in any other context:
There’s no transaction, sexual or otherwise, where you would put up with people knowingly giving you HIV.
What the actual fuck?
How I personally feel about people who aren’t careful about spreading hiv is different than what I think policy should be. Policy should be what works to prevent the spread of illness. Sometimes that means doing “nice” things for people whose choices we despise.