Tennessee Agrees To Remove Sex Workers With HIV From Sex Offender Registry - KFF Health News
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For years, Tennessee has required anyone convicted of prostitution while HIV-positive to register as a sex offender for life. To settle DOJ and ACLU discrimination suits, the state has agreed to reverse course.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    5 months ago

    Did you completely skip the article or do you think that sex workers with HIV should be automatically marked as sex offenders?

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      25·
      5 months ago

      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:

      1. Going to the doctor’s office and being injected with an HIV-laced needle.
      2. Getting food that contains an HIV-laced needle.
      3. 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?