How do you feel about HIV positive dating? Do you think they should just date other positive people or would you date someone infected?
2006-12-22 17:27:08 · 8 answers · asked by Lisa 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
I am not segragating, society is, I just wanted to see how people really felt. The question is simple, would you sleep with an HIV positive person. I think at the end of this we will find the segregation exists already, I wish to tear the wall of seperation down through knowledge.
2006-12-22 18:31:43 · update #1
I think it's for each person to decide for themselves, and that talk like this ... talk of segregating people based on the sicknesses they live with, is dangerous.
If a person decides they care about someone enough that their disease isn't a deciding factor, who is anyone else to say differently?
2006-12-22 17:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by Jaded 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of mixed couples have slept together for years, consistantly using protection, and the uninfected partner has remained uninfected. I can think of one 10 year marriage like this right now.I think it's fine to do this. Anyway, it's not like it's ok to reinfect another HIV positive person with HIV - each strand is different and resistant to different drugs. Having HIV twice is much worse than having it once. Once a person has HIV they will always need to use protection with all partners, positive or negative.
2006-12-23 04:42:30 · answer #2 · answered by Ann S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, I admit it, I wouldn't date someone with HIV. I'm a blood donor, and I wish to continue donating blood. However, the others are right that there are many mixed couples who can avoid giving HIV to the negative partner. I think if I was homosexual I might date someone who's positive, since the percentage of positive people is higher, and it would eliminate too many potential partners to restrict myself, but as a heterosexual, where 99% of people are negative, I don't feel it would restrict me to only date negative people.
2006-12-23 14:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by Katherine W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only people with HIV date others with the status, how limited their choices would be. Someone I am interested in is positive and I had to educate myself on the possibilities of having kids and what do you know, it is possible...what we feel is a mere inconvenience compared to the lifestyle change they have to go through and if that is too much to handle, we probably aren't worth their time. Another point is that medication wise, so much has changed, it isn't the death sentence spoken of a decade ago, with proper care, a (HIV) positive person can carry the life expectancy of the average person. Let's always push ourselves to open our minds, they go through enough discrimination every day.
2006-12-23 10:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Craiova 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hiv can be a scary thing . However there are many mixed couples out there one being positive and one negative, The key factor is to always use protection. its ok to dat a person with HIV after all they are human beings with feelings also.
2006-12-23 03:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by Houtxchico 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to meet an HIV positive woman. The word straight seems as a dirty word
2013-10-26 20:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard a scary thing about HIV. 1 in 4 don't tell there partners not because they don't care but because they don't know.
2006-12-23 01:30:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no segregation. HIV is a death sentence one way or another. There is no cure and I don't care how long some people live with it, it is not something you should expose yourself to.
There are support groups for those who have it and yes it is fine for them to date and continue as normal of a life as they can.
Why would someone who is negative run the risk of infecting themselves? Think about this please.
2006-12-23 03:19:33 · answer #8 · answered by Belize69 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋