sero-sorting
n.— «The practice is known as sero-sorting, which involves men choosing sex partners based on their common serostatus, a term that refers to the presence of antibodies to a particular infectious agent in the blood.» —“A Good Report on AIDS, and Some Credit the Web” by Dean E. Murhpy in San Francisco, Calif. New York Times Aug. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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