By making people feel safe to have many sexual partners, isnt VCT Online in a way encouraging promiscuity?
The risk of contracting HIV is an added reason for people to behave in particular ways. For example, people should be faithful in a Christian marriage. The risk of contracting HIV is an added reason for being faithful. But even if HIV was not there, faithfulness in Christian marriage is still desirable for those other reasons. For other reasons, young people should wait until they are married before engaging in sex. The risk of contracting HIV is an added reason to do so. Unfortunately, the risk of contracting HIV has gradually come to be thought of as the primary reason for promoting these behaviors. This causes the misapprehension that removing the risk of HIV is equal to promoting promiscuity. The truth is that, removing the risk of contracting HIV will result in people, at worst reverting to their former behaviors before the advent of HIV. Far be it from any of us that we should propose that HIV continue because it promotes sexual probity! We can never justify the devastation HIV m
