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‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
But the trend — ed “pumpg” — has ntued to be a e of ncern as mak s way to a group lled “jectors, ” which is a subgroup of “gaers, ” gay men who want to appear larger. And now, the gay muny is llg for more visibily on the practice now that two ter-famo gaers wh the last year — cludg Dovak — are ad. Compared to straight men, gay men are more prone to foc heavily on their weight and appearance.
Gay men are also more prone to eatg disorrs and other body dysmorphia ndns that rult poor self image.
But until the gaer muny beme more popular wh the troductn of a niche hook up app dited to them, “Grommr, ” larger gay men had few plac to fd satisfactn or admirers of their bigger appearance. Among the people ad om jectg silin were Dovak who died last November, a Miami trans woman who died om jectns to her butt (Oneal Ron Morris, the woman who jected her, was sentenced to 10 years for practicg medice whout a license), and last month, Tumblr gay celebry Tank Hafertepen — the partner of the man Dovak allegedly went to for advice — died of a lung hemorrhage ed by, part, silin jectn syndrome, acrdg to his ath certifite obtaed by Rollg Stone. And the dangero trend among gay men choosg to ject siline has changed the perspective of clicians and rearchers like Radix, who proposed, “This is somethg that maybe we should regnize we need to be askg about this [among our male patients].
GAY PS VTIGATED FOR HOSTG ‘BREEDG’ SEX PARTI FOR TEENS
" Exposure to a gay iend often nverts homophob swiftly; the same n be said of an HIV-posive guy meetg others who are fearful. As a gay man New York wh an active, multiple-partner sex life, the chanc are that I have hooked up wh an HIV-posive guy or five and didn't know . Gay people were very tired of beg associated wh HIV and AIDS and jt kd of went unrground.
"He told me that when he was the gay mec of Provcetown, Mass., last year, he found himself a group that was ridiculg someone they knew who was recently diagnosed. But, that's a different ntext than jt hookg up wh somebody, bee you have that nversatn and you make those cisns together, " he told said he feels more discrimated agast than stigmatized and poted to the number of ways gay men n be socially awful to each other. "I thk there are plenty of plac where the gay muny hurts self—whether 's through race, or class, or ternalized homophobia.
"You won't get a hard answer om me on , simply bee there's not enough science for to know exactly the state of affairs for men who are gay or have sex wh other men, " Kutner wrote me an email. "Studi have quantified the lsened risk, but I wouldn't generalize their fdgs to the liv of gay men. That said, the nsens is that untectable viral load is a good thg, all evince on the subject pots toward lsened transmissn risk, and there may be more we still don't know but we're jt gonna remend that low viral load has some beneficial effect on lseng HIV risk even if we n't exactly quantify yet among the gays and other [men who have sex wh men].