Yan you sound retarded. People should get tested if they haven't recently/already. Bottom line. If someone finds out now "after the fact" then they will know and be able to make however many other people aware of their direct risk. His identity will only make fewer people care about something everyone seems to care about now. You aren't going to make me feel guilty by trying to discredit my actions. Call me whatever you want or say whatever you will. I'm not losing any sleep.

i dont get how knowing the name would even help, unless you were able to come up with the entire sexual graph of all partners, which would be a huge structure and would be impossible to construct

Originally posted by: I PORKED TAYLORSWIFT

Yan you sound retarded. People should get tested if they haven't recently/already. Bottom line. If someone finds out now "after the fact" then they will know and be able to make however many other people aware of their direct risk. His identity will only make fewer people care about something everyone seems to care about now. You aren't going to make me feel guilty by trying to discredit my actions. Call me whatever you want or say whatever you will. I'm not losing any sleep.

Fair enough. You can resort to insults if your lack of foresight warrants it as long as you can feel better about yourself.

Originally posted by: brian.

i dont get how knowing the name would even help, unless you were able to come up with the entire sexual graph of all partners, which would be a huge structure and would be impossible to construct

Or you could construct a reasonable group of assumptions fairly quickly.

Not to say that people shouldn't be tested however this is only part of the awareness equation.

His name is Shifty Shellshock. Let's leave it at that.

My point was that it's great that people get tested-but then what? Start this process all over again? If you really want awareness, make the process more transparent and that is what takes the stigma away, otherwise it's just the same secretive process over and over again.

Originally posted by: mark devito

Shifty

Originally posted by: mark devito

Shellshock

i do agree that the stigma of HIV being a shameful secret is negative and not helpful to anyone. but i don't see how a name, in this case, would be useful unless this guy doesn't remember all the people he slept with and put at risk. it seems like anyone who was exposed should at least be informed, beyond that, why is this even a thread on the internet?

Yan you're like 40. You don't need to have a battle of wits with anyone. Me saying you sound retarded is simply an implication that you aren't and I don't understand where you're coming from other than to be against the grain or dig for dirt. His reaction to this thread as of ten minutes ago was "even the b9 handled it better" lol

Originally posted by: InTheButtLikeWhat

i do agree that the stigma of HIV being a shameful secret is negative and not helpful to anyone. but i don't see how a name, in this case, would be useful unless this guy doesn't remember all the people he slept with and put at risk. it seems like anyone who was exposed should at least be informed, beyond that, why is this even a thread on the internet?

He wanted people to wake up. I've been saying "what happened to the fear of HIV?" For years. Wish more people heard it.

i see. like other people have said, i'm shocked that everyone doesn't have that fear. when i think of std's, this one makes all the others seem like nothing more than the common cold.

I know that I don't have it. I was tested recently and have had the same partner for the last 8 years. I'll get tested, most of the time, once a year. My only concern questions are A) is it someone I know and B) Do any of my friends have to directly be worried?

I've seen what HIV/AIDS can do to a person. I watched my Uncle Mark practically deteriorate before finally losing the battle. Although there are treatments out now that allow the infected to live almost a completely normal life and years beyond what they would have if they caught it in the late 80's/early 90's, it's still hands down one of the scariest illnesses to have. There is also the unfortunate stigma and subsequent embarrassment for having it. You can tell the world you have cancer but not HIV. At some point you have to put your pride aside and get it out there.

I don't personally need to know the individuals name. Yeah there is a bit of me that's curious but that's because I'm human. However, in the age of the internet, simply saying "I'm John Doe and I have HIV" gets the message out there much quicker than trying to track down the random girl who you think's name was Bridget in Toledo, OH that you banged 4 tours ago. Chances are the random person you banged on tour remembers you more than you remember them. The quicker they find out, the quicker they can get tested. Getting it out there immediately could prevent a potential person you infected from sleeping with someone tonight and giving it to them. I'm rambling but you get the point.

Hopefully this person does get the courage to put it out there soon. I can't imagine what they are going through at the moment so I can understand the want for privacy. If they go about it the right way, they can definitely turn a negative into a positive though.

his name is eddie. he stole some whores mattress once.

Wren put it in a much better manner than I did.