...educate themselves about HIV/AIDS more? Sorry to rant, but everybody seems to think that you can gets HIV just from kissing!
I'm a sanguinarian, which plainly means that I drink human (NEVER animal) blood from willing donors. Humans have been doing it for thousands of years. I educated myself and found out that--
--you can't get HIV from an infected person by drinking their blood unless you both have large, bleeding mouth wounds;
--kissing never gave anybody HIV;
--sex, transfusions, and dirty needles (and being born with HIV) are the only ways;
--HIV dies almost instantly with contact to open air;
and
--hugging, holding/shaking hands, etc. never gave anyone HIV.
*Yes we practice safety-- no unsterilized blades, and no one donates without blood tests (in case of other infectious diseases)*
So why can't people out there get real, get educated, and stop shying away from infected persons. Give an HIV positive person a hug, I'm sure it will make their day!
Thoughts?
2007-05-25
23:19:51
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EDIT:
***unless YOU have a bleeding mouth wound
2007-05-25
23:21:34 ·
update #1
And yes, I'm in a monogomous relationship as well, and neither me nor my guy have slept with anyone else but each other our entire lives. However, we are not married and aren't planning on it :)
2007-05-28
20:35:18 ·
update #2
Billy--
You assume that if something is in your stomach it goes into your bloodstream. Our digestive system has the biggest percent of our immune system in it. When yu drink blood, it has already touched air, and HIV is killed by open air. After that, if anything of the virus remains alive, our digestive juices and internal immune system gets to the rest.
2007-05-31
18:52:27 ·
update #3