Least auful Tennessee law.
FWIW I think they’re also they first state to legislate real protections for musicians against AI deepfakes
Music is probably one of their few exports to other states, so I can see why they would want to protect that.
I know I’m being hyperbolic
Go forth and spread HIV.
Both lawsuits argue that Tennessee law does not account for evolving science on the transmission of HIV or precautions that prevent its spread, like use of condoms. Both lawsuits also argue that labeling a person as a sex offender because of HIV unfairly limits where they can live and work and stops them from being alone with grandchildren or minor relatives.
“Tennessee’s Aggravated Prostitution statute is the only law in the nation that treats people living with HIV who engage in any sex work, even risk-free encounters, as ‘violent sex offenders’ subjected to lifetime registration,” the ACLU lawsuit states.
“That individuals living with HIV are treated so differently can only be understood as a remnant of the profoundly prejudiced early response to the AIDS epidemic.”
Dude, if you have HIV and you go around fucking people, you’re despicable. No offense.
Yeah, that’s why it’s treated very seriously legally, you can get prosecuted for assault. It just doesn’t make sense to put them on the sex offender registry for it. Additionally, if it’s done with the person without HIV being informed and consenting, I don’t see anything wrong with that. On top of that, there is sex work without any risk of transmission, if someone gives you a handjob or doesn’t make physical contact with you, it’s not a problem. People who purposefully transmit HIV are despicable, but a sex worker having HIV doesn’t make them despicable. If you contract HIV and then go into camming, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Did you completely skip the article or do you think that sex workers with HIV should be automatically marked as sex offenders?
I think that anyone with HIV who engages in sexual activity for any reason without explicit fully-informed consent is reprehensible.
How would you feel in any other context:
- Going to the doctor’s office and being injected with an HIV-laced needle.
- Getting food that contains an HIV-laced needle.
- Receiving a little pin-pick of HIV when you visit the grocery store
There’s no transaction, sexual or otherwise, where you would put up with people knowingly giving you HIV.
What the actual fuck?
