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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. For years, safer sex advocates have been saying that self-esteem has a huge effect on how much people engage in risk-reduction and harm-reduction behaviors. That’s why many of the most effective intervention programs & organizations, whether online like Scarleteen.com or in-person like the StopAIDS Project, offer counseling and support, in addition to information. So I was really interested to read… Read the rest [Read more] The Utah Senate committee unanimously passed SB155, a law which will allow third-degree felony charges to be brought against sexworkers who have tested positive for HIV. Usually, sexwork is prosecuted as a misdemeanor in Utah, but there is a mechanism to amp it up to a felony if the defendant is HIV-positive and “knowingly sells or solicits sex acts.” The process for doing that was so difficult… Read the rest [Read more] A few days ago, I was following a Twitter conversation between @AlexaRPD and @audaciaray about the issue of mandatory disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners. In part, it was sparked by a news story about a sex worker whose arrest for prostitution became a felony rather than a misdemeanor because she’s HIV positive. And these two incredibly intelligent folks were on opposite sides of the question of whether… Read the rest [Read more]
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