In short: the increased risk of making your home available on Airbnb.

The whole concept of "sharing economy" seems to be based in large parts on the idea that individuals who got unlucky take the damage for the herd and are somehow expected find solace in knowing that the fearsome zero star retaliation rating they gave will maybe help someone else. A bit like mixed cost calculation, where the easy customers subsidize the difficult case, but reversed: the happy path transactions reap the benefits.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Patronizing a business comes with a risk of defective products or bad service. Running a business comes with a risk of bad customers.

Doing it in a more peer to peer fashion using a website improves the flow of information about these kinds of risks, but can't eliminate them. No reasonable person would think renting out their apartment overnight to strangers is risk-free; it's just a question of whether the risk is worth the reward.

You think people should be sympathetic in the case that somebody chooses to put their health at risk via infection, just because the perpetrator is gay?

Somebody has faulty reasoning here and it's not the poster you replied too.

Never thought I'd agree with yummyfajitas on anything, but you are missing his point entirely.

Statistically, gay men are more likely to be HIV+ than the general population.

Thus if a gay couple who were having safe sex in your apartment left behind lots of used condoms, there would statistically be a higher probability that those condoms contained HIV+ semen than with a couple chosen at random from the whole population.

It has nothing to do with people deliberately engaging in risky behavior. For the sake of argument, we might say that the HIV+ person in the couple contracted HIV as the result of a date rape. (Not that I in any way endorse your judgmental suggestion that most people who get HIV somehow deserve it.)

Well it's difficult to assess something like this as a matter of probabilities and generalisations. It's completely rational to be more wary of your health when dealing with the refuse of a brothel (be it gay or not) versus dealing with the refuse of, say, your teenage son/brother/friend/whatever.

It's similarly rational to be more wary of your health when dealing with the refuse of a normal (non-prostitute) gay man. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5937a2.htm?s_cid...

Consider a comparable headline: "My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up bathhouse, because my gay renter had gay sex with a man he met on the gay app Grindr."

Would this headline be deserving of a similar level of sympathy/moral weight/etc?

A person underhandedly uses somebody else's house as a gay bathhouse and the owner's upset that they have to clean up after the men? Yeah I think it's ok to be sympathetic to that situation...

You're not going to make me change my viewpoint by making it about gay people

Bro if you will happily clean up the sweat, spit, blood and semen of people who use your house as a brothel or bathhouse then maybe there's an app idea in there for ya. Most people would not be happy doing that.

Most of that is present in a hotel room regardless of the 'brothel' angle. Its what hotel cleaning crews deal with every day.

Lets admit it, its the moral angle that's getting folks all spun up.

Of course it is, and rightly so. It's completely underhanded to use someone's premises as a brothel without their say-so.

Hotels are facilities which cater for all sorts of people and can cope with all sorts of eventualities. When you rent your house out for the night to a couple, you do not expect them to have used it as a base for prostitution, and should not be as happy to clean up as everybody in this thread seems to be.

I guess we differ here. If you rent your apartment as a hotel room, then you'll have to clean it as a hotel room. The cleaning part is a red herring.

All that remains is, wishing to regulate the morals of the renters. Which is an iffy proposition at best.

Indeed, which is why most people should not rent their apartments on AirBNB.

I'll just hire yummyfajitas to stand outside with a mop and disinfectant, using my cut of the illicit proceeds. Let's hope no cops are watchin ;)