HIV Status

[Darkflower]

Yea that!

I find it interesting that all these guys are saying "this poll is anonymous," yet in the same sentence they are bragging about their negative HIV status. Anonymity works both ways, whether you are neg or poz. Don't just think personal knowledge isn't personal when it makes you look "good" or "normal"---if it's personal when it makes you look "bad," then the same standards should apply for the opposite. Would all 62 of those "negative" guys in the poll proudly brag about their HIV status if they were HIV+?? Let's be real with ourselves, I think not....

Also, how accurate do you think a forum about someone's HIV status is going to be---like people are really going to be honest about their HIV status to a bunch of straingers anyway, nowadays.

Interesting....

This is a really good point. Now I feel kind of ashamed of myself.

 

[milboy]

No one's business if people are or aren't hiv+ unless you're fucking them. Someone being hiv+ doesn't affect me at all.

An issue I have is this "clean" thing when people describe they don't have stds or hiv. People with stds aren't dirty and I'm sure they feel like shit when people say that.

One last thing: nothing is private on the internet. Not even an anonymous poll.

I agree with you, and I like the way you think. You're awesome.

 

[milboy]

Yeah as the person said above, in the US you have to sign a paper saying you are allowing them to test you for HIV. The only way I think you may know without explicitly asking is if you donated blood/plasma, then perhaps they will tell you? Idk.

I live in the USA, two years ago I had to go to the ER cause my left lung collapsed. My bf was there by my side. The surgeon tested me for HIV only cause he found out I was gay. I had no knowledge of the test. A week later, when I was finally discharged from the hospital, my nurse said, "oh by the way, the doctor had an HIV test done on you and it came back negative.".

I never signed anything.