Do I have to tell my date that I am HIV positive?

Do I have to tell my date that I am HIV positive?

It depends what you mean by date. If your meeting someone for dinner that you want to get to know over the long term, probably in your interest to talk about the realties of your health situation. If you define date as going to a bar and picking someone up and having a one night stand, and you behave safely, you don't engage in unprotected sex, there is not a whole lot of rational reason to tell a date. Having sex, telling a sex partner if your engaging in protected sex with a condom is one thing. Opening up to a person who you want to get to know and have a long term relationship with is quite another. These are only things that you can determine as you get to know other people. It's certainly akward when you've been on three or four dates with somebody, when on date number five you say that your HIV positive. That's an akward moment, but in terms of a one night stand, it really doesn't matter what you say but how you behave. Protected sex is protected sex weather you disclose your status or not. It matters what you do not what you say.