Posts by Edward Green

Justin Fox said:Edward Green, seriously, read the previous posts before you start flaming everyone. I already said that when you look at the big picture, donating organs is the humane thing to do.

I wasn't flaming you, I was making a general point!

Like I said, it's damn hard to even wrap your head around the idea of your own death.

Why? It’s just a reality check for me that I’m going to die one day. We all are. I don't want it to happen anytime soon, because honestly, I'm selfish enough to love the fact that I'm alive and can blow on a dandelion, but yeah, I'll die eventually. And thank God for that, otherwise I'd absolutely lose my mind.

Justin Fox said:Why "without reason"?

Nah, it’s not "without reason" at all. And I’m not making some stupid comparison about hair color or whatever. Look, if you’re a complete piece of trash who’d rather let your own heart rot than save someone else’s life, then fine—go ahead and die when you actually need that organ. You aren't worth the trouble. If you don't want to give up something you absolutely don't need—something that doesn't cost you a damn thing because you're dead anyway—then it’s just plain wrong to take it.

Let me make this crystal clear: nobody should be giving away blood. 😁

Wow, look at you being all "constructive." 🙂

Linda Wilson51, go find a mommy blog or some parenting forum. I bet you'll have way more luck asking those kinds of questions there. 🙂

There’s a specific window after you hit publish where you can still edit or kill your own posts. Once that time is up, you're stuck—only the mods can touch them.

Yeah. And before all that stuff. And things like that.

Anthony Kim18 said:There’s no need to change anything. How can anyone even tell if someone is HIV-positive or not?

Since when did you become an expert on yourself?

@secundo: They’re asking about promiscuity. And sex workers.

Yeah, we’re talking a few weeks here, not freaking years. 😵

Exactly.

jadetinker85 said:Oh please, just stop donating blood altogether.

She’s saying that to a guy who isn't even promiscuous and is already HIV-negative.
Because her friend is the one playing the field.

I know plenty of straight people who are promiscuous, so what, are all straight people banned from donating now? Give me a break.

Thomas Peterson46 said:Obviously, a gay man can't donate blood if he's HIV-positive or has any other illness, but that doesn't make him any different from an average guy facing the exact same conditions and laws...

No. If a guy checks the box on the questionnaire saying he's ever had sex with another man, he's permanently barred from being a voluntary donor. It doesn't matter if he's HIV-positive or not, or whether he's had a sexual life in the last five years or not.
It's not even close.

Larry Cruz51 said:It’s just like a guy getting screwed in the ass.

Good grief. 🙂
Look, here's the deal. Yeah, the tissue is more prone to injury, so there's a higher risk of transmission during anal sex.
But if a guy has a wife and he's screwing her in the ass, he's probably more or less regularly screwing her in the vagina too—excuse my French—and if she's HIV-positive, he's likely going to get infected either way.

So what’s the big deal with a guy having anal sex with his wife? 🤣

It could be a year or two, honestly. But those few weeks—depending on how sensitive the test is—that's how long it takes for the virus to actually show up. I have no clue how things work regarding hepatitis. It’s a total joke.

Maybe someone’s just terrified of being outed in this straight-edged universe. 😁

Which test takes 6 months to come back? 😕
I don't follow.

blueranger12 said:So I guess it’s a mistake they didn't include that part instead of just banning homosexuals.

I wouldn't have any problem receiving blood from someone who's only ever had homosexual encounters, tests regularly for HIV, only has sex after getting a clean bill of health, and always uses protection.
ESPECIALLY if he was doing experiments in his youth, but for the last 20 years, he's been married to his wife and hasn't cheated once. (But according to this system, he can't donate blood. Ever.)

What, like you can't detect the virus in homosexuals until 40 years after infection or something? 🙄 Or maybe it's fine if it's caught through a small cut during anal sex, but if you get it from swallowing sperm or standard vaginal sex, then everything is totally fine. 🙄

Seriously, if you fuck someone in the ass one single time, you're banned from donating blood forever. What a brilliant rule that would be.

I think it’d be way more effective to frame the question about risk differently. Don't just talk about specific scenarios; explain that any unprotected encounter—including oral—with someone who falls into a high-risk category counts. This isn't just about sex workers or people of the same gender; it's about anyone who doesn't have a fresh, clean test result from someone they haven't been intimate with, or even someone who's just locally "well-known" in certain circles. We need to appeal to people's conscience. Even if they think, "It won't happen to me," they should have enough decency not to pass potentially infected blood to someone who is already struggling or vulnerable. If someone truly wants to donate blood, waiting six weeks shouldn't be an issue if we just used more sensitive testing methods. That way, they could be sure that they aren't hurting anyone.

Jose Miller3 said:How are you supposed to lower the risk of someone being in a window period, where blood tests aren't showing an infection from a serious disease (be it HIV or Hep-C)?

How is someone who had sex with a person of the same gender six years ago still in a window period?
And how much riskier is sex between two men compared to anal sex between a man and a woman?

In my book, the only sexual history criterion that should matter is having zero high-risk encounters during a specific timeframe. Telling a guy who did whatever he wanted in his youth, but has been faithful to his wife for the last 20 years—and she to him—that he can't donate blood because he hooked up with a man when he was 18? Total idiocy.