ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a sexual community, one that is composed of autonomous adults who are participating, or not, freely. It relates to a community that otherwise conforms as much as possible to real life, including a variety of relationships, imbalances in power and gaps in knowledge and the presence of stigmas and forms of discrimination, and varying levels of access to treatment for HIV. The chapter explores into what constitutes the Good in such a community. It explains that to define basic moral principles or goods, without at this point 'balancing' or harmonizing them. The chapter provides a more holistic account of the ethics of sexual behaviour in the presence of HIV, one that embraces as moral actors not just those who know they are positive and are engaging in sex, but everyone who has a stake in and a responsibility for a healthy sexual community.
