What do you do if you discover you have HIV?
a) Cry
b) Take a retest
c) Have unprotected sex with partners you do not make aware of your condition
d) None of the above
e) All of the above
How did those wily French get Nadja starring in their anti-AIDS commercials? Her tail in particular is in VERY fine form!
If are are Nadja Benaissa, a German singer, songwriter, sometime actress, and a participant in the prestigious Eurovision tournament 2 years ago as a part of a pop group “No Angels”, can’t vouch for the option “e”, but the “c” applies likes there’s no tomorrow.
And the way, at least, one of her victims…sorry, lovers probably feels, there really isn’t.
Thus far, the singer had been accused of sleeping with three men knowing she had HIV, but not letting them know ahead of time or using any sort of protection. And out of these, one has fallen ill, though the singer’s lawyer — trying to get her acquitted of a crime carrying with it a possible 10 year sentence — argues that there is no evidence she is the one responsible for the man’s infection.
It is for that reason, exotic Nadja is now on bail after having spent 10 days behind bars — and free to resume the same destructive course that has her waiting to face the court in the first place.
But if it were up to me, the argument wouldn’t have held water. Even if the man has caught his infection elsewhere, even if it could be argued that her lovers were equally at fault for practicing unsafe sex, there is still an unequivocal fact that the woman knew what she was carrying and had willfully foregone any and all accepted measures of disease prevention.
What exactly motivates people like Nadja? Revenge? On whom? The innocent bystanders? Indifference? Makes a little more sense. Bitterness at the world at large? Stupidity at its finest?
Her behavior has a potential to be more destructive than Jeffrey Dahmer’s when you think about that. How many folks could her lovers have unwittingly infected? How many — her lovers’ lovers?
There really is a potential for geometric progression, depending in particular on basic promiscuity and carelessness of everyone involved. Considering she has not been arraigned for rape, there is a fair chance to some extent, both are being practiced by Nadja’s sexual partners.
That said, I cannot see her how a mere decade is an acceptable term in case of a conviction. She might have — or may be in the process — of torturing countless victims. Victims of their own stupidity, too, true enough, but that does not exonerate her particular brand of viciousness whatsoever.
Key. See Key? Throw Away Key. Bye, Nadja!
A public prosecutor’s office in the western town of Darmstadt responsible for initiating the criminal proceedings against Nadja hadn’t solicited my opinion, but if it did, I would actually have bumped the charges to domestic terrorism and the multiple counts of murder in the first degree. Despite a mounting outcry from AIDS equal rights groups regarding what could be perceived as “the criminalization of HIV transmission”, I think what Ms. Benaissa has done was wrong. It was a conscious violation of other people’s right to choose — their lives, their friends’ lives — and while the transmission of AIDS through not taking necessary procedures is undoubtedly wrong and should be educated against, walking around consciously spreading the virus is a kettle of reeking week-old fish. And if glamorous Ms. Benaissa had nothing better to do than monger that spoiled fish, she should be prepared to pay the hefty fines.
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