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I've been seeing it more and more as of late, big pushes from liberals and the likes in regards to accepting anything and everything, ignoring any negative implications because it doesn't support the desired narrative. More recently, with the broad acceptance of the LGBT spectrum, I'm seeing a lot of light get shed on AIDS, and more specifically HIV. Where does my problem lie with this? They're trying to convince others that those who carry HIV aren't to be off limits in regards to sexual contact, or shunned.

The routes of infection are slim, and the virus is frail outside of the body once exposed to oxygen. Barring some sort of direct fluid transfer, you're really not going to be affected. As far as day to day happenings are concerned, you don't have much to worry about and nothing to gain by being cruel towards somebody who's afflicted. There's a very common drug, which you likely heard of having its price jacked up by a certain businessman, that removes all currently detectable signs and consequently most of the ability for the virus to be transferred when you're on it. While the risk is magnitudes lower of it being transferred, there is still a risk.

"Well, that's great then!" you must be thinking. I've got nothing to worry about then! Except, you still do. Like a birth control pill, there's no guarantee it's 100%. We're also dealing with the same people who've tried to glorify the homosexuality rainbow, now trying to tell you that it's cool to sleep with people carrying something contagious. Does this not sound absolutely loony?

There's a quote from a website that focuses on life for those who test positive, involving a young girl and her dating life. There's a lot of feely feely jargon, but one particular section of text really stood out to me:

Most HI-negative heterosexual men are extremely uneducated about what it really means to be HIV positive these days. It simply hasn’t ever been on their radar. I have to go through an education process with every single guy, and I’ve developed an arsenal of links to articles to send out the day after a good first date. It’s exhausting to constantly have to convince people that I am not at all contagious, I am not going to die young, and I can have a normal life and have babies if I want to. No matter how patient and open I am, most of the time it doesn’t work and they ghost me. This is probably a general heterosexual girl thing and not just an HIV thing, but I’ve found that most men have no problem just having sex, but when it comes to building a relationship, they’re out. It’s so easy to say “NEXT” in a city with so many beautiful people. The next cute girl probably won’t have this baggage.

She seems disappointed that the majority of men who aren't carrying anything choose to avoid her, but then confirms a huge RP truth as her closing sentence. The next cute girl won't have this baggage. Anybody you socialize with is going to have their share of baggage, but it's up to you to decide how much you deal with, and what is worth dealing with long term. Once you've been with a couple of women, you start to realize that the whole oneitis mentality is stupid, and it begs the question as to why you would even risk being with somebody who's carrying a communicable disease that would leave a big red X on your forehead, just for the sake of getting laid? It doesn't matter how "good" of a person they might be, why would I ever want to risk my own integrity for the sake of some moral high ground, or getting my dick wet? It's bad enough risking that you could have a child when you don't want one, let alone walking away from the ordeal with something you'll never get rid of. The next girl in line, or the one after her could be just as fulfilling without putting yourself through unnecessary risk.

Our biological imperative is to seek pleasure and avoid pain, and by deciding to take a risk with somebody carrying a disease - you go against that completely, and stupidly. Your brain can tell you that while it would feel good short term, catching a disease will ruin you long term. The first girl I ever slept with was a whore, and we had a drunken night of fun one time which led to me spooning her in bed. She went from fondling my dick, to pushing herself back onto me. We'd always used condoms, since she wasn't on the pill, and while it felt amazing at the time, even drunk me recognized that I'd better pull the hell out and not partake in that risk. I made her take plan B the next morning, even though I was confident nothing would come from it, and realized that continuing relations with her was a bad idea if she was going to be irresponsible like that.

So, I'm sorry buttercup, but I wouldn't get closer to you than I have to. My condolences that you or anybody else caught it from a partner who lied (after you chose to stop using condoms), or were born with it, but that's your problem to deal with now; I'll leave the bullet of physical intimacy in the teeth of somebody else. You're not going to bitch and moan your way into my pants, and you sure as hell won't tell me what I will and won't do. If anything, this further proves why to use a damn rubber and pay close attention to your partners.