"Serosorting"

I came across this term the other night whilst reading a news item on the NAM website.

Basically, what "Serosorting" means is you discuss your status, positive or negative, with a potential sexual partner and then choose to have unprotected sex with that person based on your own status.

Common sense you would think? A good "risk reduction" measure? Perhaps! However, your knowledge of your status is only as good as your last test. Be that 6 months or 6 years ago. Now if you are having unprotected sex with several sexual partners whose knowledge of their own status is as only as good as their last test, does it still seem like a good "risk reduction" measure?

Are you not just working on the basis of guess work? Unless you have had your results that very day, are you not just guessing that you are negative? It only takes one wrong guess!

I would say that our situation is testament to the this. Somewhere along the line we got it wrong! I don't think we were mislead in any way by anyone. Whoever it was must have thought they were negative - just as we thought we were negative!

Food for thought!