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Comment author: Toggle 09 September 2014 05:46:59PM 1 point [-]

Can this situation be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma in a useful way? There seem to be some important differences.

For example, if both 'prisoners' have the same strain of herpes, then the utility for mutual defection is positive for both participants. That is, they get the sex they were looking for, with no further herpes.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 10 September 2014 12:01:59AM 2 points [-]

Not prisoner's dilemma, but successful coordination to which a decrease in the spread of HIV in the gay community is attributed: serosorting.