Today’s question comes from Jerry K. of the Castro who asks: “Since the Charlie Sheen case has broken the issue of legal responsibility for transmitting a STD like HIV has been on my mind. My former partner gave me herpes. I asked him his status and he said he was “negative and clean” so we stopped using condoms. He never told me and when I found out and confronted him he said that he thought that he was no longer capable of transmitting the disease because he would take medicine when he felt an outbreak coming on. My doctor says this is BS and that the medicine only shortens the length of the outbreak and does not reduce transmission risk. We broke up when I found out a year ago. I’m really pissed as now I am infected for life and I tell anyone with whom I am intimate so they never wind up in the same situation. What is the law on this? Do I have a case? He works for one of the big tech companies and has lots of valuable stock.”