I could make this a poll, but there'd be too many choices...

[lovingboth]

The law in (edit!) England & Wales used to be absolutely clear: STI infection during consensual sex was not assault, even when the infection was deliberately concealed from the partner.

But in the past couple of years, there have been three successful prosecutions of men for sexual transmission of HIV. They're going through various retrials and appeals, but the basic question remains:

Should sexual transmission of HIV be a criminal offence?

What about when someone lies about their HIV status in order to get their partner to consent to unprotected sex?

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[uran.livejournal.com]

Any transmission of STIs/viruses should be an offence, in my view.
Although just about impossible to enforce without advanced testing techniques that would cost too much to really pursue, it'd make those bastards keep their trousers on for a change.
Even a bit of paper saying that you're 'clean' doesn't mean much, as you could have gone out that morning, after the test came back clean, had sex with god-knows-who with god-knows-what and contracted something and passed it on to a person trusting the bit of paper that afternoon. Bad bad bad. Sigh. If only we were programmed NOT to shag anything that looks twice at us.