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Infectious Sex?

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Bill Sureton

Disclosure is a crock. Stigma is real and deadly. This disease affects some of the best people and most of us were dx'd between 1996 and PrEP. undetectable = safe. This is probably the most real, uplifting thing I've read in the several years since Brett Grodeck finally stated what every newly diagnosed person feels but doesn't get to hear, "HIV is a raw deal". Thanks for writing something that doesn't paint us as cautionary tales of woe, ignore us altogether or demand we forsake ourselves.

August 1, 2017 Oceanside, CA

Sean Strub

Andy, this is a fantastic piece. Reading the quote from the woman who said, "I can't believe I'm not infectious" was like a punch in the gut as it perfectly incapsulates an end result of the stigmatization PLHIV face in the U.S. We are socialized to distrust our bodies, to treat them as an inherent betrayal of our self, a pernicious degradation of our self-esteem that for many of us, accrues over time.

August 1, 2017 Milford, PA

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