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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 29 September 2014 04:19:35PM 2 points [-]

How about instead of quarantine, we had instead tattooed all HIV sufferers across the forehead?

You could attach an unremovable (without the key) leg tag with a warning on it. This would be reversible and not on display during the normal course of daily life, diminishing the stigma.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 29 September 2014 06:03:07PM 4 points [-]

I only have hazy memories of the 1980s, but I'm pretty sure the fashions of the day still allowed you to have sex without taking any clothes off. You'd need a very different piece of equipment to enforce this.

(I was going to improve a link to the Wikipedia article for chastity cages here, but it includes NSFW images. Investigate them at your own peril.)

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 30 September 2014 03:47:52AM 2 points [-]

I only have hazy memories of the 1980s, but I'm pretty sure the fashions of the day still allowed you to have sex without taking any clothes off. You'd need a very different piece of equipment to enforce this.

I guess if there were std warning leg bracelets then most people would want to check their partner's ankles, even if they kept most of their clothes on. But government mandated chastity belts wins for comedy value.

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