What I found out was that this is a relatively new and dangerous recreational activity where people who purposely look for people with positive HIV so they can become infected with HIV.
These people are called “Bug Chasers.” And they see having HIV is a “Badge of Honor.” But, in reality more like a “Badge of Stupidity” because they want to fit in with an already infected crowd. Some call it an “erotic” adventure according to one Rolling Stone interview in 2003. Hardly I'd call it an "erotic" adventure. I and others call this a deranged and dangerous practice with no moral boundaries or concerns. What pity.
However, many psychologists theorize that participation in bug parties is actually an anxiety disorder where the non-infected individuals fear getting HIV so greatly that they would rather contract it and free themselves of the anxiety of living in fear. These parties are also seen as a sort of club for those living with HIV. Infecting a HIV negative and willing participant initiates them into their world. However, that would be a world of pain and suffering instead that many are not even prepared or even understand the extreme consequences.
And yet they expect the government to pay for their medical expenses because they purposely want to get HIV? How blatantly stupid is that?
Aside from wanting HIV there are those who are called “Gift Givers.” A gift giver is an HIV positive gay man who deliberately transmits the virus, often times to bug chasers, or those willing to contract it. Isn’t it grand to be a “victim”? Be in a society of “victimhood” so they can belong to a family of victimhoods? They certainly won't get my pity. More like they need straight-jackets for those who purposely want to injure or kill themselves in the process, however long or short it may take, by means of purposely acquiring dangerous pathogens. Pink rooms for them. Or why they would want to spread HIV purposely to those who do not want it in the first place? People, heterosexual or homosexual, who commit crimes of that nature ought to be shot. But on one end we find all kinds of strange reasons why people want to mutilate themselves (or others) to no end by infecting others on purpose with the HIV virus.
There are even hearing people who want to poke out their ear drums, so to speak, so they can become deaf and be a part of the Deaf world. Pretty desperate people they are. At least these deaf wannabes are not killing themselves or passing on these death viruses to other people on purpose.
“These are disability wannabes - people who think becoming disabled will give them a sense of family, while they deny the medical and social problems of disability. The bug-chasers have the same illusion. They wreak havoc on their families, on the health care industry and on research for a cure. Education and treatment are the only weapons to dispel these dangerous fantasies.” - Barbara McKee, Albuquerque Tribune.She forgot to mention some serious counseling or psychological help, too.
What’s next? Super HIV Bug Chasers where they die a few months later as a result? I think we have those diseases already where you can die in a few days, it’s called the Ebola Virus. At least there's a 20% outright survival rate for the Ebola virus compared to HIV positive that becomes a full blown AIDS which is nearly always fatal at some point in time. The immune system becomes weakened over time and have trouble fighting infection and other pathogens creating diseases. Although with advanced medicine and knowledge have extended the life of a person with HIV/AIDS even to 10 or 20 years. However, idiocy is not an excuse.
A little common sense here. You cannot die from not having sex, but you can certainly die as a result if you’re not careful. So, don't pass around cooters next time.
UPDATE: A rock band group called Erasure whose singer Andy Bell recently announced his HIV-positive status late last year. In a recent interview Bell stated that he will begin a campaign to educate young people about HIV and AIDS. While noble yet he says in another more recent interview by Jonty Skruff where Bell replied about his HIV positive condition that reveals more about his nature with HIV:
From the re-birthing experience I understood that I’d always wanted to belong in groups; I wanted be a gay man, I wanted to be a drug addict and I wanted to be HIV positive.
And this is from a person who want to educate young people about HIV and AIDS? What better spokesperson to encourage the spread of AIDS by explaining that in order to "belong" to a group of people you must have the HIV positive virus? Funny how the band group's name is called "Erasure." The name is prophetic in its own right.
This is a sign of things to come, HIV-positive wannabes.
UPDATE 2: From Demure Thoughts, this blogger share my same feelings.
Most telling exchange of the interviews "The Gift" came when the most vocal of the men in the support group was bitching about the ridiculous number of AIDS/HIV support organizations and charities. In the San Francisco area alone there are something like 75 some-odd agencies addressing the disease. He started talking about the Pride Parade and how it was basically the HIV/AIDS parade now with all the floats and groups being some how affiliated with the disease. He says, “What in the hell did we have in our parades before HIV?”
Check out the comments. They're pretty telling, too, about how repulsive these acts are.
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