Originally Posted by
TheOtherDave™
If - under this system of quarterly exams - a prostitute is infected with HIV and a condom breaks and all the alleged safeguards fail, how do you deal with the aftermath? She may have passed on HIV to hundreds by the time the disease is caught.
I believe rubber usage is mandatory in NV. One breaks, she catches HIV, she may hump 100 men before her next exam, but that doesn't mean she's passing HIV on to 100 men, just the one guy who is unlucky enough to have another break
and contract the virus, which is far from 100% (especially when it comes to men contracting it from women).
Originally Posted by dave
Secondly, how do you contain the health risk if the infected prostitute drops out of the legal system and continues in her line of work, evading the public health bureau that is charged with making sure diseased women are out of the biz?
I think it would have to be legal only through licensed brothels. If she fails a test, she is blacklisted and can't get a job. If she works the streets or the internet to continue her business, that would be illegal and prosecuted the same way it is now. :dunno:
Originally Posted by dave
I mean come on, we can't even agree on nationalized health care. Does anyone really think one could get bipartisan support for a Federal Bureau of Prostitution?
I think it would have to be addressed at the state level... I don't think there would be any hope for a bureaucracy of federal proportions.