What happens when one or two pints slip through, and the unknowning recipient contacts HIV.
I donate all the time, they ask thesequestions, along with sleeping with prostitutes, sharing needles or going to Africa about 4 times each through the interview.
The nations health should supercede some 18 year old gay's feelings. But we all know it won't.
In my experience, they ask you all the sex, drugs & traveling to Africa questions on a private questionnaire, and then follow up with a confidential interview. If your iron is low or your temperature high or you checked a "yes" that should have been a "no", you are privately declined for donation. No branding, no red X on the forehead. Just, "I'm sorry, we cannot use your blood at this time"...
If somebody wants to lie to the questionnaire and lie to the interviewer, they are given one last opportunity to do the right thing. You are given two bar code stickers, one to put on your form if you think your blood is safe for transfusion and one if you have any reason to think there may be a risk. The interviewer hands you the stickers and turns away, so you can place the appropriate sticker on the form and throw the other one away. The blood bank even says that if you use the "DO NOT TRANSFUSE" sticker, your blood will be used for other purposes, such as research.
Now if anybody can go through that whole process, read the questions and go have the interview, and then use the "TRANSFUSE MY BLOOD" sticker even though they know they were lying, we are dealing with a level of narcissism that I have a hard time believing actually exists. Maybe I just run with the wrong (right) crowd...
When they got to the question, "Have you ever exchanged sex for money?" I replied, "Does that count child support?"