(September 30, 2015 at 10:40 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 10:34 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: So the fact they would carry that for the rest of their lives is irrelevant? Have you all gone completely mental?
Its different from being pregnant and getting pregnant is a circumstance unique to women. Noones arguing against that.
But to say that, what? Its *nothing*? That it isn't worthy of being considered even remotely being in the same league?
If that person, male or female reveals their condition they will be treated negatively for the rest of their lives. I don't consider that nothing. Sorry. To say that women are the only ones who suffer the consequences of unprotected sex is just wrong. Demonstrably wrong.
Is that really something that needs to be responded to with "Oh yeeeeah but people can see when you're pregnant." Oh cool, I'll just pop round to Africa and tell everyone theres nothing to worry about then.
Slow your roll, man. Nobody said women suffer the only consequences of sex; they do, however, suffer the bulk of them, to the point that the male element of it is effectively irrelevant for the point of discussions of this sort.
I say this as a person who has worked for HIV/AIDS charities and activist organizations as a volunteer for two decades, now.
I said it could be argued that way, but he is right that I was wrong in saying that because men do have to deal with the consequences when it's an std.
But no one is trying to stop people from choosing their treatment when the consequences are stds.