DatingHIV.comCommunity Guidelines for Respectful HIV Dating
Respectful HIV dating begins with the freedom of adults to choose whom they meet, what they share, and which relationship they want. These principles describe the behavior DatingHIV encourages. External member services apply their own rules and reporting processes; this static website does not operate a separate moderation or dispute-resolution system.
Respect and Equal Dignity
Do not shame a person for HIV, another health condition, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, gender, orientation, religion, age, or relationship preference. Avoid reducing someone to a diagnosis or stereotype. A refusal or incompatibility is not permission for insults.
Use the person's name and language, ask rather than assume, and accept that attraction does not have to be mutual. Nobody owes a date, an explanation of every personal detail, or continued contact to prove acceptance.
Consent and Adult Participation
Intimate contact and sexual content require freely given, specific, ongoing consent between adults. Agreement to one activity does not include another, and either person can stop. Do not pressure someone through gifts, money, travel effort, medical facts, or threats of ending the relationship.
Do not misrepresent age. Follow the eligibility rules of the service used and stop an intimate exchange if adulthood or consent is uncertain.
Privacy and Honest Representation
Do not share another person's HIV status, medical records, images, messages, location, or identity details without appropriate permission. Consent to receive information is not consent to publish or forward it. Respect a request not to record a call or take a photograph.
Represent yourself honestly. Do not impersonate someone, use stolen photos, fabricate medical information, or use a badge as a claim of verification beyond what a service actually checks.
No Harassment Coercion or Fraud
Do not continue unwanted contact, threaten disclosure, extort money, distribute intimate material without consent, or use a claimed emergency to pressure someone into a transfer. A person can end a conversation without being required to debate the decision.
For conduct on an external service, preserve relevant evidence safely and use that service's reporting route. Get qualified local help for threats or possible unlawful conduct. For immediate danger, use the emergency service where you are.
Careful Health Communication
Use reliable sources for medical facts and qualified professionals for personal care. Do not promote invented cures or tell a partner to change prescribed treatment. Discuss sexual health without stigmatizing labels or treating a test result as a measure of personal worth.
Our privacy resources, intimacy boundaries, and harassment information offer more detailed support for these decisions. Contact DatingHIV about a problem with this website's content, and the actual member service about an account or user report.