Should sexual transmission of HIV be a criminal offence?
Not unless the transmission of any other virus is also a criminal offence.
What about when someone lies about their HIV status in order to get their partner to consent to unprotected sex?
As above - not unless lying about anything else is also a criminal offence.
And, honestly, ceteris paribus anyone who consents to unprotected sex, regardless of who says what, can hardly claim, this far on, not to know what the risks of what they're doing are.
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baggyeyes
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Date: 2005-01-05 05:46 pm (UTC)Not unless the transmission of any other virus is also a criminal offence.
What about when someone lies about their HIV status in order to get their partner to consent to unprotected sex?
As above - not unless lying about anything else is also a criminal offence.
And, honestly, ceteris paribus anyone who consents to unprotected sex, regardless of who says what, can hardly claim, this far on, not to know what the risks of what they're doing are.