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Queerty Lists ‘What You Stand To Lose’ By Avoiding Sex With People Who Have HIV

Paul Bois
Queerty Lists ‘What You Stand To Lose’ By Avoiding Sex With People Who Have HIV
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Last week, the LGBT website Queerty published an article that has since been going viral on social media, provocatively titled “What you stand to lose by not having sex with people with HIV.”

As the title suggests, the article by David Hudson intends to dispel a stigma attached to HIV-positive individuals (primarily gay men), arguing that people should be open to sexual relations with them. The article begins by envisioning an idyllic couple who complement each other in so many ways only to have that relationship cut short upon one discovering the other to be HIV-positive.

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