IF more than one partner means getting AIDS then why people with 2 or more marraiges not infected by it?
473621
People could be with multiple partners who are not infected with HIV.  You can't just get AIDS from having sex with more than one person.  It's all about knowing if you have HIV and getting tested if you are having sexual relations with more than one person (or even if you are just with one person, getting an HIV test wouldn't hurt).
421665
Animals don't get infected because its a human thing, in other words rather its God saying stop screw all these people horndog.\n\nyou know know that I think about it cats gets aids... and cats are known for having several partners...
1113283
If one person is infected, sure.  If neither person is infected -- no.  Viruses do not occur by spontaneous generation.  It isn't an orientation that causes them, its preexisting presence in one or the other partner.\n\nCondoms are more effective than most studies funded by religious organizations try to assert, so be careful of who wrote the study you read, and ask a teacher from a PUBLIC school who is a statistician to help you interpret what you are reading.\n\nPeace.\n\nReynolds Jones\nhttp://www.rebuff.org
571547
Muslim Americans and Mormons who have more than one wife are breaking the law.  It's called polygamy.  You are not being discriminated against.  You could have more than one wife, as well.  But you would be subject to arrest and conviction, just like them (if you were caught).
199545
Because there is supposed to be a degree of trust that exists between you and your partner in a committed relationship.  If you violate that trust, then there can't be a healthy relationship.\n\nHowever, if you both agree to have an open relationship, then obviously seeing other people is okay.  It's when both parties expect something different from your relationship that you're going to have a problem.
473922
Since AIDS came onto the scene and we've ben educated about how its transferred, more people are being cautious. People who date and/or having sexual relations tend to protect themselves a lot better and a lot more than 20 years ago. Married people usually get check ups before marriage to ensure nothing is wrong with each other (AIDS, STD, etc). \n\nA family coping with someone with AIDS is no different than a family dealing with cancer. Both can be treated with meds, however, there is no cure for either. Some recover, some don't........My hubby's best friend died from AIDS, got a bad blood transfusion long before they screened things the way they do now. He lingered for many years, some good days, some bad. AIDS doesn't know homosexual, or drug user...It can happen to the average person. No one is immune to it, you just have to try and protect yourself from it and make life about life, not death!
123972
I think both are extremely wrong.\nPre-marital sex and Adultery is one of the reasons why we have AIDS and HIV rampant all over the world. \nOnce a person has premartial sex, he or she starts the ball rolling, and many move on to Adultery.\nWhy?\nAfter having sex with different people, some even with strangers, will he or she appreciate his or her loved one's body? Will the temptation of no strings sex lure them into having an affair?\nThere has to be something sacred in marriage and in a person's body and that's his and her virginity. This may sound antiquated but would you, want your boyfriend and girlfriend to have had sex with 10 people and marry them? \n\nWould you appreciate this person more if you knew he or she fought of temptation EVEN BEFORE they met you because they are governed with such strong belief and respect for their future spouse, in all seriousness, they knew the marriage up ahead would be no joke, a lifelong commitment where both would share mind, body and soul?\n\nThis is not to say it should be a law where pre-marital sex is forbidden, but it should be a personal choice made, to have self-discipline and self-control, not to let loose like a crazed animal in heat.\nAll this gives rise to disgusting sexual conduct like bestiality and so on, because no one appreciates, or respects sex as a sacred act between two, married, committed people.\nIt's not a game, it's not something you can play with.\n\nThat's why our world is full of horrible pornography where women are humped and co-erced into sex, treated like animals by the men.\nIt's disgusting. And before someone tells me, how would you know the person's sexual preferences before meeting them, or he or she has the right to do that because they are two consenting individuals - \n1. You wouldn't know your own sexual preferences if you hadn't had sex. That's why marriage is so wonderful, two loving, innocent people can explore each other legitimately and their sex lives and preferences evolve together as they live their lives together.\n2. It's true. Two consenting adults, go ahead, do it. However, wouldn't the two of them appreciate each other's deeds and thoughts of them? Wouldn't they know how commited and how thought out the person's beliefs were because this was already thought out before they met each other?\nCan a man feel comfortable hearing about his wife's ex-boyfriends? He prefers not to hear it and pretends it doesn't exist because he can't look at his lady knowing she has been with another man! And a woman, can she accept that her boyfriend or husband is a cassonova in his days of youth, can she absolutely say she knows he won't go out where his lust leads him? Temptation is all around, look at the amount of sexually permissive people around the community, the world, even, and say you're sure. Would you love him better knowing he has saved himself for the ONLY woman he'll ever have sex with, knowing how sexually active men are? This deed itself presents so much to appreciate and love in your man.
448899
I am a cultural relativist, so I see no reason to judge other cultures poorly if they have a tradition of polygamy. They have their own reasons for doing it. Historically, polygamy has been far more widespread than monogamy. It's still practiced by some cultures today. If you look, most of them come from areas where survival is difficult, and it's easier to survive and to reproduce if you have multiple wives. I'd also like to point out that, although there aren't nearly as many, there are also a few cultures where the wives have multiple husbands. Again, you can usually see environmental reasons for it.\n\nPersonally, I don't understand most people in this country who consider themselves poly, because it always seems to me that there's a "third wheel" who doesn't get as much attention as one of the other partners. But if that's their thing, that's their thing. Maybe it works fine for them and I simply can't understand from an outsider's perspective. I really think the most important thing is: are the people in the situation happy, and is anyone being hurt by it? If the answer to the first question is yes, and the second one no, then it's all good.
1091685
It is not you that is having (or needs) the open relationship, it is your partner who is staying with another woman.  If that person and the woman have an open relationship, that's one thing, but if there is cheating going on, that is never okay.\n\nAlso, keep in mind that a person who is "open" with you may be similarly "open" with others.  What kind of sexual disease might be spread around that way.  And if you are hooking up, you are exposed to whatever all the other partners (and *their* other partners) might have.
92496
because you increase your odds of sleeping with an infected person when you sleep with allot of people. many people could be cerriers of the disease and show no symptoms for years, maybe never, but they can still pass it on to you.
279971
While there are exceptions to this, the sexual contact pool of homosexuals is remarkably confined. That is, gay men usually have sex with gay men. Of course, epidemiological studies have shown us that many men who don't identify as "gay" still engage in sex with men. So in public health, we use the term "MSM" meaning "men who have sex with men."\n\nSo within the MSM population, why is HIV so prevalent? Because you start with one guy, and he gives it to his partner, who gives it to another partner and so forth. If they're not having sex with women* then it stays in the MSM community. If you stay in that partner pool, your chances are much higher that you will find a partner who has HIV because the population is disproportionately more infected than the rest of the population as a whole. If you have sex with more people with HIV, then you stand more chances of getting the virus, too.\n\n* there are MSMW, meaning they secretly have sex with men, but then go home to their wives and girlfriends, have sex and pass HIV to them. this is a growing problem in African-American communities (who call it "keeping it on the down-low"), and it is a growing problem in India.\n\nAnyway, back on topic. Gay penetrative sex is risky in general. The rectum is lined with delicate tissue that tears easily. During vigorous sex, the tears that form can absorb the virus particles that are released in the seminal fluid. That's how gay men usually pick up HIV, although "tops" (insertive partners) can get HIV, too, because the urethra is lined with tissue simliar to the rectum.\n\nAdd risky behavior to the biological disadvantage. Many gay men have multiple partners. Many gay men also have anonymous partners. It doesn't matter what orientation you are: if you have sex with a lot of people, and a lot of strangers, you are endangering yourself!!! Crystal meth and Viagra are being used as party drugs now, so you get lots of high guys having anonymous sex with loads of people in a single night. When you're high, you forget to use condoms. A lot of HIV prevention strategies aimed at gay communities revolves around drug prevention in order to address this problem.\n\nLast point I want to make is the cohort effect. AIDS has been around since 1978. But retroviral drugs have been around since 1995. When HIV+ people started taking them, AIDS deaths declined. before that, you had lots of young gay men dying off in drove. Now, it doesn't happen so much. Gay men who are coming of age today probably know plenty of people with HIV, but because not as many people are getting AIDS, there's no imminent or perceivable danger. They don't believe the threat is there, so they keep doing risky stuff, then they get HIV and not realize the consequences.\n\nAnyway, that's as many HIV MSM issues I can address right now. Hope that was more than thorough.
1083252
Could be...your body is smarter than you and doesn't want to spread the disease any further.\n\nIt's best that you are honest with your partner(s) about your condition. You can still pass the virus on to other while having protected sex, even on skin contact; especially during an outbreak.
550043
Not sure I understand this question. But, here goes.\n\nIf both partners are exclusive and both partners tested negative for HIV/AIDS, then they should never be infected with the disease through exclusive sexual contact. \n\nBut you can get HIV/AIDS in other ways. So if one partner is a Health Care professional and is stuck with a sharp that is infected, then he or she could contract HIV/AIDS.
696137
I don't think people get married to stop each other from sleeping around .I think they get married because they love each other.
439618
I hate to look at things this way, but I'm a factual person. The stats show that ppl who live together before getting married are more likely to get divorced. I waited until I was married to have sex. This brings a real sense of security to our relationship. I could go on about the other benefits, but I'm tired.
100374
Plenty of info at the link below. \n\nAll it takes is 1 infected partner, how many doesn't matter at all.
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On any single encounter with an infected partner, the risk is high, but not 100%. Multiple encounters increase the risk of transmission substantially.\n\nContrary to popular belief, HIV is actually quite difficult to catch. It is about 5000 times more difficult to contract than Hepatitis C for example (another sexually transmitted disease).\n\nYou should always use a condom if you want to avoid risk; you cannot rely on a person knowing their status. You don't know your status right now do you? And it takes several years for AIDs to develop, so often people feel and appear completely healthy while being infectious.\n\nThe chance of transmission varies with the time that the person has been infected. In the early stages they can be very infectious (before there are any signs). They wil become less infectious after a while and if they are on a therapy, they may reduce their viral load so as to be imperceptable. This doesn't mean you cannot catch it from them but the chances are reduced.\n\nThere is nothing you can do at this time except wait, and do not have unprotected sex with anyone else. Get your first test in three months time, and a further test after six months. If both are clear, you should be OK.