I registered on this board just to throw my measely 2 cents on this topic....
Im 20 going on 21 and I've been HIV+ all my life. I contracted it through a blood transfusion 2 or 3 days after birth. I only found out about this at the age of 16 when I was hospitalized for pneumonia and a couple of other various lung infections.
If I wasnt HIV+ would I fuck a girl who I knew was HIV+ with a condom? Hell no.
Knowing what I know now, and expiriencing HIV first-hand, no amount of sex is worth the 1/1000000000000000th chance of contracting a terminal illness. And thats just real. Im know alot of you are sexually active and willing, but you really have to think about your health in this day and age. I really encourage everyone to go out and get tested BEFORE they start enganging in sex for the first time, and then continuing to get tested every 6 months after. If youre a parent, educating and getting your kids tested at an early age is important, because although my circumstances of contracting HIV resulted from a generational problem (before in the early 80's they had no knowledge of HIV; I wasnt the only one to contract it as a child through blood transfusion - hundreds of people were infected in the same fashion) kids are are becoming more and more sexually active at a younger age.
Its not about discrimination, its not about misunderstanding, its about safety. people have the right to define the level of personal risk theyre willing to take - which is also why I agree with the law in Florida that makes it a felony for an HIV+ person to have sex with someone who is negative without telling them. People who are HIV+ and still participate in high-risk sex without telling their partner are a danger to society, and they should be treated as such.