Updated Mar.10,2006 20:44 KST

HIV-Positive Man Held for Endangering Sex Partners
An HIV-positive man has been arrested for having sex with other men without warning them that he was infected with the virus, police said Friday. Incheon Metropolitan Police said the 24-year old, who contracted the virus through homosexual contact in 2002, is charged with having high-risk sex with seven men he met through an Internet forum in 2004.

Police said the man had sex with another, whom he had met online, at a hotel in Incheon as recently as a week ago. Police quoted him as saying he was unable to suppress his sexual urges and had sex ¡°even though I knew I shouldn¡¯t.¡±

The arrest came as part of a crackdown on obscene websites. Police have asked health authorities to test the man¡¯s sexual partners for the virus and are determining where there were others.

(englishnews@chosun.com )