GAY MEN WHO BUG CHASE! Survey

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• 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
• “MAKE ME YOUR TOXIC SON, DADDY”: THE B-FAIAL BONDS CREATED BY GAY MEN THROUGH “BUG CHASG” AND “GIFT GIVG”

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 gay men onle who get off on seekg HIV fectn (“bug chasers”) aren’t exactly known for their thoughtful trospectn.

What I disvered was a human beg wh an admtedly perilo fetish who has pulled himself om the the name “Jack” and wrote that he is a 33 year old gay man. In fact, a number of gay men, at least onle, appear to clamour for HIV. And yet another argu that, “as a gay man, HIV had to be part of me, and not havg meant I was not yet plete”.

And this allows to place those sir at the centre of sexual well-beg, helpg to expla what role HIV plays society today, and what means, or feels like, to be a gay man the 21st century.

“MAKE ME YOUR TOXIC SON, DADDY”: THE B-FAIAL BONDS CREATED BY GAY MEN THROUGH “BUG CHASG” AND “GIFT GIVG”

It’s a mostly-secret subculture of mostly gay men. Is this a gay thg? Many gay men have been lulled to a false sense of what HIV is after beg bombard by HIV dg ads featurg body builrs, mounta climbers, beach parti, etc.

"I’ve slept wh enough men to know that I’m not gay". I thk the fns are slippery and I also thk there are many reasons gay guys, for example, might bareback and still not be, technilly, bug to cid "bug chasers" i suggt a phy, brief exchange, and then ignore them.