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Should I disclose my HIV status on dating apps?

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Bob Leahy

The column is frankly a bit shallow. If you perhaps have internalized stigma and/ or are scared of people knowing you are HIV-positive you won’t share online. If you have no fears and see the potential for finding informed mates who have no problem with dating the HIV-positive, particularly in the age of U=U, disclosing makes sense. I do think that unless we take the lead, stigma will remain. Nobody is going to do the work for us. Disclosing online is a good start.

December 26, 2018 Ontario Canada

Frank

Unless you're interested in just sex and it is legally required before where you live, sharing protected and confidential medical information such as an HIV diagnosis is, I think, a very bad idea. The world is not entitled to know your HIV status, just as it is not entitled to know any other disease or medical condition of yours. You're not being dishonest by not sharing your status right off the bat, but simply waiting for the right circumstances and right people to share it with.

November 27, 2018 Texas

LBPanther

If a person is comfortable with disclosing their HIV+ status then they should, it's up to that particular person. I personally disclose that I am HIV+ on ALL my social media profiles, from Facebook and Instagram to dating or hookup sites, I've done so since I was diagnosed in 2007, not because I was "taking the lazy way", but because we all want and expect honesty from people so that's where it needs to start, from yourself.

November 19, 2018 Georgia

springflower

what are some of the other HIV welcoming sites besides Poz and positive singles.....and have serious seekers on it not those lame hookups

August 4, 2018 atlanta

DukeAlistar

In an era of Claiming "STIGMA" hurts. Yet WE are the ONES Perpetuating It ! How do you ever Expect to have an Honest Friendship or Relationship, If you Cower to Share your Status. You are only Adding to the Stigma. As is with every other aspect of Our/Your Lives. If WE are wanting this to change, then Sharing you're HIV + Upfront will Immediately Defuse any FALSE hopes. Not only for Yourself but the other person as well. If we want Change, WE have to make it happen. HONESTY not FEAR !!!!!!!!!!!

June 27, 2018 Florida

DaleSmith

I believe disclosure of something as personal and as polarizing as HIV status on an app should not be done. It is as if the man (or woman) behind the online profile doesn't want to run the risk of rejection so HIV status is volunteered as a pre-emptive strike. It is just lazy thinking. I'd rather have a potential mate get to know ME, not a diagnosis. I would disclose HIV status before any sexual activity, though.

June 20, 2018

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