So, saw this article today: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/06/20352866-grocery-store-worker-may-have-infected-300-people-with-hiv-prosecutor-says?lite

Here is a question... I am not denying that keeping it a secret you have HIV is not right.. but, do we not make our own choices for sexual safety? If you have sex unprotected, you open yourself up to disease. The man who gave the victim HIV is in jail on a 250,000 bond. So what is the "crime" he committed? What legally does this fall under? What's next, a woman gets deathly ill during her pregnancy, then presses charges on the baby's father because he lied and told her he could not have kids? Now he's accountable for her illnesses? I have been an RN for years... we use universal precautions. If I use poor technique and do not protect myself and get a communicable disease, should the patient be placed in jail since he didn't tell me he has something?I already said I am a nurse, but also am new to the legal profession. (legal nurse consultant). So I would like to know, what law has been broken here? That's the bottom line. Was a CRIME committed?

, I get that they are looking into the public health concern and massive spread. I am not arguing that. This article says many of the 300 people were casual encounters from Craig's List. Sooooo... poor them? They take out a personal ad to have sex with someone they do not know, and many use no protection, but the only one to blame for the public health spread is the man in the article? I don't think so.

This whole threads screams of slut shaming.
Unless I am prepared to deal with a potential STI infection or pregnancy I should not be having sex...is that what we're getting to now?

^^ This has nothing to do with slut shaming at all. Not saying people should be 100% abstinent. Sex carries risks, period. If your OK with that, then engage. Everyone who had sex with this man
assumed those risks.

Ok, I am not going back to see who posted this, but on the comment that he intentionally took out the ad on CL just to infect people. Prove that. He even said himself he was just having sex and feared if he told his partners, they would reject him. So he kept it quiet. That to me does not say he planned on taking out ads merely to go on a rampage and get as many people infected as possible. It says to me that he enjoyed casual sex, and he did not want that part of his life to end and figured it would if he disclosed that. Let's not forget the people who had their own ads out for the same purpose. Somehow he is the male slut now or a criminal?

I don't think this should be a criminal offense. People should be treating their casual sexual partners as if they DO have an STD. Just like when you bandage someone's wounds, you treat that person's blood like there is a disease.This is one of my hot button issues. We all have our own personal responsibility is preventing the spread of HIV. This is why people don't get tested. If you don't know you're positive, you don't have to worry about the heightened social burden that comes with it.

This whole article is absolute hysteria

Thous, I agree completely