Criminal laws generally provide that someone who deliberately inflicts harm on another person should be punished. Civil laws allow the victim to seek compensation for harm done. Should people who know they are infected with STIs but who have unprotected sex with others and infect them be prosecuted? Should the people they infect be able to sue for physical and psychological damages?

 

ANSWER 1

I consider that if they should be prosecuted, only if it is proven that this person who knows, who is fully aware that he or she is a carrier of some sexually transmitted disease (even if it is not a serious or incurable disease) intentionally puts another person at risk of being infected of that disease.because it must be considered that it is not the same impact that the contagion of a curable disease and that does not endanger life, such as genital herpes, that has a chronic, incurable disease that eventually and without the necessary care can put life-threatening, such as HIV or Hepatitis C. Consequently, a person who purposely infects another with a disease that can cause death, I consider that he should be criminally prosecuted for the crime of danger of contagion. For this, I consider that criminal judges could use the tools that the World Health Organization has issued in this regard, such as treatment manuals for Sexually Transmitted Infections, the definition of chronic diseases, among others. It is certainly a particularly complex decision that can be influenced by a multitude of reasons, ranging from concern about the possibility of transmission of a sexually transmitted disease to fear of rejection by the sexual partner when learning about the health condition of people with these illnesses. And because we must also remember, dear student, that exercising the right to privacy also entails some duties and responsibilities in the event that a situation of risk of transmission occurs, such as when the condom breaks. For example, a person with HIV, especially if the viral load is not suppressed, has the obligation to communicate their serological status so that post-exposure prophylactic measures can be taken to avoid harming the other person. In addition, the psychological and emotional consequences that negatively impact the person infected by another person who, even knowing that he is with a sexually transmitted disease, damages this other person in a perverse and conscious way, and without thinking about the many physical consequences as psychological that this situation will represent in the injured person.

ANSWER 2

Of course, I consider that if you should sue, because a legal principle that governs our society is that we have a duty to avoid putting others at risk of harm, To be more practical, this means "don't do something that you know will hurt someone", and this principle of duty obviously extends to sexual partners.If one of the members of the couple knows, or should have known, that they had a sexually transmitted disease, they should be held responsible for transmitting the infection to their partner who was unaware of that circumstance.

And it is a person who suffers from a sexually transmitted disease because another person who knew that he was sick, contagious it, can develop some psychological problems, such as anxiety, depressed mood, among others ...And on certain occasions this can lead to problems when maintaining intimate relationships with another person, self-limitations due to social stereotypes, problems with self-esteem, self-image, assertiveness and decision-making. and also suffer physical sequelae such as: Pelvic inflammatory disease, Certain types of cancer, such as cervical and rectal cancer associated with the human papillomavirus, Heart disease, Arthritis, Pelvic pain, among others, so I consider that there are sufficient reasons to that injured people should sue these people who, even knowing they have sexually transmitted diseases, engage in unprotected sex with the clear intention of harming other people.

Dear student, it should be noted that this is a subject of broad conception, since the perspectives to it may vary according to the particularities of each person, but nevertheless this guidance that I provide can serve you so that you have a better understanding of the theme.