{"id":81099,"date":"2015-12-04T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81099"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:54:47","slug":"the-power-of-hiv-positive-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81099","title":{"rendered":"The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Goad writes<\/a>: There are multiple documented cases of people purposely infecting others with HIV<\/a>, which makes me puke just a little bit more into the bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile most people try to avoid acquiring viruses online, these fellas make it their mission.\u201d<\/div>\n

But surely one of the sickest, saddest, and most revolting social phenomena of the past, I don’t know, ten thousand years is a small yet virulent sub-community of gay men who actively seek to become<\/em> infected with HIV. While most people try to avoid acquiring viruses online, these fellas make it their mission.<\/p>\n

They are known as “bugchasers<\/a>.” The men who willingly infect them with HIV, usually straight up the cornhole without a condom and hopefully with a little bit of blood smeared into the spermy fecal mix, are known as “giftgivers.”<\/p>\n

Feeling sick yet?<\/p>\n

The bugchaser\/giftgiver “community” is but a tiny subset of the larger “barebacking<\/a>” scene of homo dudes who have unprotected sex without the explicit intent of getting infected or infecting someone else. Again, that’s a bit more passive than doing it on purpose, but if you wind up weighing ten pounds and shitting your diapers because you have AIDS, the difference is nearly meaningless.<\/p>\n

Some bugchasers say they merely operate from a sort of suicidal impatience and simply want to “empower” themselves by taking their HIV infection into their own hands\u2014to be precise, their own asses\u2014because it’d be a relief to just go ahead and “get it over with” since they’re not going to stop having sex with bajillions of partners anyway. Some say they feel it’d be a relief to actually know<\/em> you’re HIV-positive than having to, you know, worry<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n

Others eroticize the act of getting infected\u2014or, as they call it, “charged” or “pozzed”\u2014framing it as the ultimate sexual taboo, and who wouldn’t be thrilled by that?<\/p>\n

Still others say that by purposely allowing their HIV-positive partners to infect them, they are choosing to enter a quasi-mystical “brotherhood” of gay men, a spiritual fraternity dedicated to fight a hatefully straight society that stigmatizes and is bigoted against the act of infecting yourself with a fatal disease by asking someone to squirt his HIV-positive cum up your rectum. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!<\/p>\n

Finally, there are those who frame it as the gay version of reproducing. They refer to it as “breeding,” getting “knocked up,” or even being “impregnated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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