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Contents:

• A GAY BUG EXPERT NAMED A NEW FLY AFTER RUPL
• ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY
• WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX
• 1980S. HIV/AIDS: WHY WAS AIDS LLED ‘THE GAY PLAGUE’?
• THE SURPRISGLY GAY WORLD OF SECT SEX
• BUG CHASG: WHEN GAY MEN INFECT THEMSELV WH HIVTHE EMERALD MAGAZE™·FOLLOW3 M READ·DEC 18, 2020--LISTENSHAREBY J. LRA | EMERALD MAGAZETHIS ARTICLE NTAS SEXUAL SCRIPTNSIN 2019, UNAIDS — A GLOBAL EFFORT TO END AIDS — TIMATED THERE WERE 38 LN PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. IN THAT YEAR, AROUND 690,000 PEOPLE DIED OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS. SCE THE START OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC, ANOTHER 75.7 LN PEOPLE HAVE NTRACTED HIV. YET, THERE ARE SOME WHO NSIR HIV TO BE A GIFT. “BUG CHASG” AND “GIFT GIVG” ARE THE TERMS ED BY SOME GAY MEN WHO TENTNALLY HAVE UNPROTECTED ANAL SEX WH OTHER MEN — A PRACTICE KNOWN AS “BAREBACKG” — WH THE AIM OF NTRACTG HIV.WHAT IS HIV?HIV, ALSO KNOWN AS HUMAN IMMUNOFICIENCY VIS, IS A VIS THAT ATTACKS THE CELLS THAT HELP THE BODY FIGHT FECTN — WHICH MAK SUFFERERS EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO DISEAS AND FECTN.THE VIS OFTEN SPREADS BY NTACT WH BODY FLUIDS FECTED WH HIV, MOST MONLY DUIRNG UNPROTECTED SEX OR THROUGH SHARG JECTN DG EQUIPMENT.WHOUT TAKG HIV MEDICE, PEOPLE WH HIV N VELOP AIDS — THE LAST STAGE OF THE VIS, WHICH DAMAG THE BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM. HIV GOV EXPLAED THAT AIDS PATIENTS TYPILLY SURVIVE ABOUT THREE YEARS. BUT WHOUT TREATMENT, LIFE EXPECTANCY FALLS TO ABOUT ONE YEAR.BUG CHASG AND GIFT GIVGALTHOUGH HIV IS NO LONGER A ATH SENTENCE, THERE ARE MEN WHO VOLUNTARILY LOOK TO FECT THEMSELV WH THE VIS BY A “GIFT GIVER” — A MAN WHO IS HIV POSIVE. EXPERTS LL THE PROCS “BUG CHASG.”MEN WHO WANT TO FECT THEMSELV WH HIV ARE KNOWN AS THE “BUG CHASERS” BEE THEY ARE “CHASG” THE “BUG,” A LLOQUIALISM FOR A VIRAL ILLNS.DPE THE TERRIFYG STATISTICS OF THE HIV VIS, BUG CHASG IS MON SOME SUBCULTUR, ACRDG TO VICE.ONE HIV POSIVE DANISH MAN WHO HAS LONG BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE DANISH BAREBACKG SCENE TOLD VICE THAT THIS SUBJECT IS “MUCH MORE WISPREAD THAN YOU WOULD THK.”A MAJORY OF THIS ACTIVY IS FOUND ONLE, MART WICHMANN EXPLAED TO VICE. AT TIM, HE SE MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE ONLE ON THE SE.WICHMANN SAID THAT THE PHENONMON IS NOT “SOMETHG THAT PEOPLE HI WHEN TO BAREBACK SEX.”HE SCRIBED THAT ON S LIKE , THERE ARE SOME WHO ARE WILLG TO PAY TO HAVE SEX WH AN HIV POSTIVE PARTNER. IT STS BETWEEN 500–1,000 DANISH KRONER, WHICH IS ROUGHLY$80-$162.THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH?REARCHERS HAVE ARGUED THAT BUG CHASG IS SYMPTOMATIC OF SEXUAL ADDICTN.ONE UNAMED GAY MAN EXPLAED THE BBC HOW HIS SEXUAL ADDICTN LED HIM TO CHASE HIV.“MY PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN I WAS THREE. I LIVED WH MY MUM, WHO I’VE E TO REALISE IS A NARCISSISTIC AND EMOTNALLY ABIVE PERSON,” HE WROTE. AT 11, HE STARTED MASTURBATG, AND AT 12, HE DISVERED THAT HE WAS GAY.“WE GOT OUR FIRST PUTER WHEN I WAS 14. I STARTED LOOKG AT PORN PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY,” HE SAID.AS HE GOT OLR, A MAN HE DATED WANTED TO HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX. HE CID TO GO ALONG WH . A FEW MONTHS LATER, HE STOPPED G PROTECTN ALTOGETHER.“IF I’M STRSED OR ANX, I HEAR MY MUM’S VOICE SI ME TELLG ME THAT I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH,” HE WROTE. “THAT LEADS TO ME WANTG TO HARM MYSELF, WHICH LEADS TO ME CHASG. IT IS MUCH EASIER TO DO THAT THAN TO FACE MY FEELGS.”THE FETISHIZATN OF HIV
• BENGAY STOPS BUG B FROM ITCHG

A GAY BUG EXPERT NAMED A NEW FLY AFTER RUPL

It’s pretty on-the-nose to name a rabow bug after a gay in, but when has RuPl herself ever given a damn about subtlety?

“As a gay scientist, took me a long time to feel fortable my own sk a very tradnal field of science — entomology, " Lsard told CNN. Yet spe this, homosexualy sects – which rri all of the risks of sex whout the evolutnary benef of passg on gen – has been seen more than 100 speci. No real nsens has been reached on why sect homosexualy is so mon, wh different studi supportg or refutg particular ias even wh the same speci.

There are dozens of ias ed to expla homosexual behavur sects, which broadly fall to two tegori. Eher they suggt sect homosexualy has evolved bee actually helps mal have more offsprg, or that is not an evolutnary adaptatn and stead occurs when mal simply don’t regnise potential mat.

ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY

In the former tegory, scientists have suggted male homosexual activi may rce matg petn by distractg or jurg other mal, or tablishg social allianc wh them or domance over them. On the other hand, homosexual behavur sects may provi no evolutnary advantage and stead be due to nfn ed by environmental factors (as when u fli nsume alhol rottg u). Homosexualy is wily reported many beetle speci.

So those beetl who me om a group wh greater sexual petn were ls likely to show homosexual behavur. The implitn is that homosexual behavur sects, pecially the beetl, isn’t an evolutnary adaptatn bee, where there is the prsure of sexual petn, be ls mon over time.

Instead, our rearch adds to the weight of evince suggtg sect homosexualy is the rult of poor mate-spottg abili, although we still don’t know exactly why this occurs. Rearchers believe homosexual behavr sects is accintal.

WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX

Acrdg to new rearch, sects that engage homosexual behavr are “not gay, jt nfed.

As the rearchers expla, matg has some ser disadvantag, terms of energy spent as well as potential vulnerabily to predators, and homosexual behavr, such as urtg and mountg, would have the same disadvantag, such as jury, wh no evolutnary upsi as the sects would not be able to pass on their than lose out on a chance to reproduce, sects make mistak, say the rearchers. Homosexual behavr n be advantageo for some animals, cludg birds, as n lead to group velopment and practice, but the rearchers wanted to see if some of the theori explag sect homosexualy were accurate. The rearchers say that some of the proposed theori clu homosexual practic to thwart predators or nfe potential suors, but upon studyg 110 speci of sects and spirs, the theori were quickly led 85 percent of the sect speci engaged homosexual behavr, the rearchers disvered this practice was due to nfn.

Other evince, such as matg wh related speci, helped nfirme the nclns of the sects have not evolved to be more discrimate, the behavr uld be lked to other tras, wh Scharf explag, "Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor. " Further rearch uld terme possible factors that would crease the possibily of homosexual behavr. Male sects generally have gay sex by mistake: they n't tell the difference between a male and female until the act is done.

1980S. HIV/AIDS: WHY WAS AIDS LLED ‘THE GAY PLAGUE’?

But a new review of homosexual sect enunters suggts the acts may not be that straightforward for the dividuals volved. Rearchers have wily examed homosexual behavr mammals and birds, but have addrsed ls equently sects and spirs. To asss the range of evolutnary explanatns for same-sex terurse the vertebrate world, a team of blogists om Tel Aviv Universy Israel and the Swiss Feral Instute of Technology Zurich, Swzerland examed roughly 100 existg studi on the topic and piled the first prehensive review of homosexualy vertebrat.

Whereas larger animals have veloped more plited homosexual motivatns — like matag allianc, which has been found certa primate and seagull speci — sects seem to mistakenly partake a hasty attempt to secure mat. [Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the Wild]"They have evolved to mate quick and dirty, " said study -thor Inon Scharf, an evolutnary elogist at Tel Aviv Universy. "Other studi do, however, show evince of more tentnal and malic motivatns behd homosexual sect sex.

THE SURPRISGLY GAY WORLD OF SECT SEX

Even so, one study found that certa male sects have veloped femalelike genals to lower the risk of damage om homosexual sect sex pleasurable? On the other hand, female-female homosexualy appears to have a separate set of motivatns, and serv a whole separate analysis, Scharf said. In fact, one study found that certa female beetl mount each other to look larger and attract more male equency of homosexual behavr the sect world also remas unclear; however, more s have been observed the lab than the field.

BUG CHASG: WHEN GAY MEN INFECT THEMSELV WH HIVTHE EMERALD MAGAZE™·FOLLOW3 M READ·DEC 18, 2020--LISTENSHAREBY J. LRA | EMERALD MAGAZETHIS ARTICLE NTAS SEXUAL SCRIPTNSIN 2019, UNAIDS — A GLOBAL EFFORT TO END AIDS — TIMATED THERE WERE 38 LN PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. IN THAT YEAR, AROUND 690,000 PEOPLE DIED OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS. SCE THE START OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC, ANOTHER 75.7 LN PEOPLE HAVE NTRACTED HIV. YET, THERE ARE SOME WHO NSIR HIV TO BE A GIFT. “BUG CHASG” AND “GIFT GIVG” ARE THE TERMS ED BY SOME GAY MEN WHO TENTNALLY HAVE UNPROTECTED ANAL SEX WH OTHER MEN — A PRACTICE KNOWN AS “BAREBACKG” — WH THE AIM OF NTRACTG HIV.WHAT IS HIV?HIV, ALSO KNOWN AS HUMAN IMMUNOFICIENCY VIS, IS A VIS THAT ATTACKS THE CELLS THAT HELP THE BODY FIGHT FECTN — WHICH MAK SUFFERERS EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO DISEAS AND FECTN.THE VIS OFTEN SPREADS BY NTACT WH BODY FLUIDS FECTED WH HIV, MOST MONLY DUIRNG UNPROTECTED SEX OR THROUGH SHARG JECTN DG EQUIPMENT.WHOUT TAKG HIV MEDICE, PEOPLE WH HIV N VELOP AIDS — THE LAST STAGE OF THE VIS, WHICH DAMAG THE BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM. HIV GOV EXPLAED THAT AIDS PATIENTS TYPILLY SURVIVE ABOUT THREE YEARS. BUT WHOUT TREATMENT, LIFE EXPECTANCY FALLS TO ABOUT ONE YEAR.BUG CHASG AND GIFT GIVGALTHOUGH HIV IS NO LONGER A ATH SENTENCE, THERE ARE MEN WHO VOLUNTARILY LOOK TO FECT THEMSELV WH THE VIS BY A “GIFT GIVER” — A MAN WHO IS HIV POSIVE. EXPERTS LL THE PROCS “BUG CHASG.”MEN WHO WANT TO FECT THEMSELV WH HIV ARE KNOWN AS THE “BUG CHASERS” BEE THEY ARE “CHASG” THE “BUG,” A LLOQUIALISM FOR A VIRAL ILLNS.DPE THE TERRIFYG STATISTICS OF THE HIV VIS, BUG CHASG IS MON SOME SUBCULTUR, ACRDG TO VICE.ONE HIV POSIVE DANISH MAN WHO HAS LONG BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE DANISH BAREBACKG SCENE TOLD VICE THAT THIS SUBJECT IS “MUCH MORE WISPREAD THAN YOU WOULD THK.”A MAJORY OF THIS ACTIVY IS FOUND ONLE, MART WICHMANN EXPLAED TO VICE. AT TIM, HE SE MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE ONLE ON THE SE.WICHMANN SAID THAT THE PHENONMON IS NOT “SOMETHG THAT PEOPLE HI WHEN TO BAREBACK SEX.”HE SCRIBED THAT ON S LIKE , THERE ARE SOME WHO ARE WILLG TO PAY TO HAVE SEX WH AN HIV POSTIVE PARTNER. IT STS BETWEEN 500–1,000 DANISH KRONER, WHICH IS ROUGHLY$80-$162.THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH?REARCHERS HAVE ARGUED THAT BUG CHASG IS SYMPTOMATIC OF SEXUAL ADDICTN.ONE UNAMED GAY MAN EXPLAED THE BBC HOW HIS SEXUAL ADDICTN LED HIM TO CHASE HIV.“MY PARENTS DIVORCED WHEN I WAS THREE. I LIVED WH MY MUM, WHO I’VE E TO REALISE IS A NARCISSISTIC AND EMOTNALLY ABIVE PERSON,” HE WROTE. AT 11, HE STARTED MASTURBATG, AND AT 12, HE DISVERED THAT HE WAS GAY.“WE GOT OUR FIRST PUTER WHEN I WAS 14. I STARTED LOOKG AT PORN PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY,” HE SAID.AS HE GOT OLR, A MAN HE DATED WANTED TO HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX. HE CID TO GO ALONG WH . A FEW MONTHS LATER, HE STOPPED G PROTECTN ALTOGETHER.“IF I’M STRSED OR ANX, I HEAR MY MUM’S VOICE SI ME TELLG ME THAT I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH,” HE WROTE. “THAT LEADS TO ME WANTG TO HARM MYSELF, WHICH LEADS TO ME CHASG. IT IS MUCH EASIER TO DO THAT THAN TO FACE MY FEELGS.”THE FETISHIZATN OF HIV

" The team next hop to nduct experimental studi on a speci of beetle to terme how homosexual behavr affects different aspects of the animal's life, and whether the behavr is lked to any other specific typ of Lra Poppick on Twter. The early years of AIDS were a time of great fear and anxiety for gay men around the world.

BENGAY STOPS BUG B FROM ITCHG

But there was another element that exacerbated the suatn – the homophobia whipped up by irrponsible media.

Central to this was the staed e of the terms ‘gay plague’ and ‘gay bug’ when referrg to AIDS. A ‘Gay’ Disease? As for the ‘gay’ nnectn, there is no doubt that AIDS was first tected gay men and, for a brief perd, sperate rearchers examed the so-lled ‘gay liftyle’ for clu as to atn.

Sadly, this rulted the creatn of the acronym GRID – “Gay Related Immune Deficiency”. But GRID was only adopted om early 1982 until July 27th 1982, when the Centers for Disease Control realised, amongst other thgs, that there’s no such thg as a universal “gay liftyle”.