sexual responsibility

(1) The ethical obligations that a person who knows he/she has an STD—especially HIV—has to others with whom he/she engages in penetrative sexual activity
(2) The duty one has to a partner to not impose the risk of pregnancy and/or sexually-transmitted disease, by wearing condoms, even in absence of known disease

sexual responsibility

The ethical obligations that a person who knows he/she has an STD–especially HIV–has to others with whom he/she engages in penetrative sexual activity. See Negotiated safety, Sexual ethics. Cf Fabian Bridges, Self-protection.