"Bug Chasers"

MAG: 25% OF NEW HIV-INFECTED GAY MEN SOUGHT OUT VIRUS, SAYS SAN FRAN HEALTH OFFICIAL

New ROLLING STONE Managing Editor Ed Needham is set to hit complete controversy with a 4-page report: "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+."

Filed by Greg Freeman, the shock story claims some men with HIV are deliberately having unprotected sex with those who want to be infected!

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"The men who want the virus are called \'bug chasers,\' and the men who freely give them the virus are called \'gift givers.\' While the rest of the world fights the AIDS epidemic and most people fear HIV infection, this subculture celebrates the virus and eroticizes it," reports Freeman in the February 6, 2003 edition of ROLLING STONE.

At least twenty-five percent of all newly infected gay men fall into [bug-chasing] category, according to one claim in the "special report".

"In this world, the men with HIV are the most desired, and the bug chasers will do anything to get the virus."

Gay groups "aggressively encouraged" Freeman to drop the article.

One sad passage captures a young man in New York City who wants to be infected:

"His eyes light up as he says that the actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV, will be \'the most erotic thing I can imagine.\'"

An infector is quoted as saying: "I\'m murdering him in a sense, killing him slowly, and that\'s sort of, as sick as it sounds, exciting to me."

Most AIDS activists prefer to deny the problem exists to any significant extent, says Dr. Bob Cabaj, director of behavioral-health services for San Francisco County and past president of Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. "They don\'t want to address that this is really going on."

In a gonzo-journalism ROLLING STONE moment, Cabaj claims at least 25% of all newly infected gay men fall into [bug-chasing] category

http://www.drudgereport.com/rr.htm

[Kurt Angle]

That\'s pretty disturbing. Why in the hell someone would want to deliberately infect themselves is beyond me.

[Titan]

What sick people :eek:

That is sick, it\'s like commiting a very slow suicide.

I\'m gonna go vomit now.

Originally posted by Titan
/me wonders if a few of the member here are bug chasers

You - bug chaser


But seriously, why anyone would wanna do that is beyond me.

I have a really hard time believing any of that.  Sounds like an Onion article without the sarcasm.

Ugh, this is disgusting.

An infector is quoted as saying: "I\'m murdering him in a sense, killing him slowly, and that\'s sort of, as sick as it sounds, exciting to me."

Sometimes I\'m ashamed to be human.

25% seems a bit high, but there people out there that are so sick that they cut off their gonads for the one quick rush. So who knows!?!?!?!?

[Viper_Fujax]

that has to be the stupidest thing iv ever heard of. if they want to, then fine, they should get aids with a state of mind like that. would be a problem if they spread it to others who dont want it though. how bout no more gay sex . (jk. im not a homophobe)

capcom has a good point. cuz steve-o from jackass staples his nuts to his leg????? i dont have the stomach to watch cuz thatd hurt my nuts just looking at it.

I have heard of some sick stuff but that was something that actually disturbed me. I can say that I have seen wickedness in its raw form. I can see now that my child is going to have a harder time than I ever did growing up in the world of her generation. If it’s this type of sick stuff today, what then for tomorrow. How much worse will it have to get before somebody steps in and puts an end to it all? Of course, this is the land of the free. Free to do as you please, but to commit suicide, or to murder someone in this fashion should be a crime.

if that true, then its just soooo wrong, who would want that??