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I was having drinks with a friend of mine — we’ll call him Patrick here — this weekend when the subject of having sex with HIV-positive men came up. “Oh, I would never have sex with an HIV-positive guy,” he casually remarked — as if such a thing were already obvious.
I was shocked not just by Patrick’s statement, but also by the categorical bravado in his delivery. To have sex with HIV-positive men, as he went on to explain, was to expose himself to unnecessary risk of infection. I’ve been replaying this conversation again and again in my head. How could he be so outrageously calculating in his cooIly expressed exclusionary strategy?
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