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Sexual Responsibility

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Sexual Responsibility
(1) The ethical obligations that a person who knows he/she has an STD—especially HIV—has to others with whom he/she engages in penetrative sexual activity
(2) The duty one has to a partner to not impose the risk of pregnancy and/or sexually-transmitted disease, by wearing condoms, even in absence of known disease

sexual responsibility
The ethical obligations that a person who knows he/she has an STD–especially HIV–has to others with whom he/she engages in penetrative sexual activity. See Negotiated safety, Sexual ethics. Cf Fabian Bridges, Self-protection.


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