The numbers alone show us that unsafe sex is a common human experience; so common, in fact, that we could start to understand unsafe sex as part of the normal conflicts and contradictions that signify being flawed and mortal, i.e., a person. Much as we understand that unwanted pregnancy is an undeniably human part of life, so is HIV infection, but we don’t incarcerate men whose female partners become pregnant when they don’t want to be, even though they didn’t use condoms.
