If you’re thinking of joining Positive Singles, but are unsure if you’re likely to find a match based on what you’re living with, then this little investigation may be of interest.
In it, I will look at who is most likely to use Positive Singles, and what conditions are most represented if you are a:
-Man looking for a woman
-Woman looking for a man
-Man looking for a man
-Woman looking for a woman
Technically, Positive Singles can be used for a variety of diseases, including HIV, HSV-1 and HSV-2, HPV, Chlamydia, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. Not all of these conditions are represented equally, however, and finding a match with some may be a little difficult unless you are in a large city.
My Positive Singles ‘Test Search’
To get a sense of this, I did some test searches on Positive Singles within Colorado state. I chose Colorado because it is average sized (22nd in population among the states), yet still has a fairly wide range of people. I did four separate searches based on sexual preference, and took the first 100 profiles for each as a sample (except ‘women seeking women’, where I took 80 profiles, as there were less than 100 matches total).
Here’s what these searches yielded:
Men seeking women (all ages):
- HIV: 6
- HSV-2: 68
- HSV-1: 5
- HPV: 9
- HEPC:
- HEPB:
- CHLAMYDIA:
- HSV-2 & HSV-1: 6
- HERPES (UNSURE WHICH TYPE): 2
- NOT LISTED: 1
Women seeking men (all ages):
- HIV: 4
- HSV2: 61
- HSV1: 6
- HPV: 4
- HEPC: 1
- HEPB: 1
- CHLAMYDIA:
- HSV-2 & HSV-1: 16
- HERPES (UNSURE WHICH TYPE): 5
- NOT LISTED: 2
Men seeking men (all ages):
- HIV: 94
- HSV2: 3
- HSV1: 2
- HPV: 1
- HEPC:
- HEPB:
- CHLAMYDIA:
- HSV-2 & HSV-1:
- HERPES (UNSURE WHICH TYPE):
- NOT LISTED:
Women seeking women (all ages):
- HIV: 11
- HSV2: 29
- HSV1: 4
- HPV: 7
- HEPC: 1
- HEPB:
- CHLAMYDIA: 2
- HSV-2 & HSV-1: 7
- HERPES (UNSURE WHICH TYPE):
- NOT LISTED: 19
Here are some noticeable results from these searches:
-Heterosexual men and women are living with and seeking HSV2-infected partners, and in almost equal measure.
-Homosexual men are almost exclusively living with HIV, and seeking same.
-Homosexual women are primarily living with HSV2, though this group was the toughest to gauge because nearly 25% (19 of 80) did not list their condition.
-Within all groups, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Chlamydia are nearly unrepresented.
-Within all groups, HPV and HSV-1 (oral herpes) have small representation. For both homosexual and heterosexual women, more are living with both HSV-1 and HSV-2 (genital herpes), than with just HSV-1 alone.
Hopefully this sheds some light on which conditions are most and least represented on Positive Singles. Clearly, a HepB or HepC infected person may not feel it worth their while to pay for a membership to PS, though signing up for free and looking through your own city or state may yield some luck.
