Talk:Criminal transmission of HIV

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"Several other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have been known to medical science for centuries, but there was little incentive to criminalize their transmission for two practical reasons:

many societies were reluctant to discuss matters of sex, let alone enact legislation to control sexual activity; and unlike HIV (and subsequent AIDS), these other STDs are not fatal."