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He is now dealing with the unexpected severity of his illness.
Also featured in the documentary is noted psychoanalyst and community activist Walt Odets, MD, author of In the Shadow of the Epidemic. He has also been asked in person but this is rare.
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My arousal immediately let go of the rope.Perhaps our discrepancy was more about perception – he wanted to put a nice face on a grimacing disease, I grimaced about a disease that could never seem nice. Now with no sex drive, I wondered if I could at least turn this into a valuable lesson for the young man.
I closed the chat window to cut him off. “Good thing I know my status otherwise I would have totally given it to you.” Surely my powerful statement would remind him about the risks of barebacking and jump start his engine on the road to safer sex.
“That is the point. He gave the same reasons the websites did.
Eventually I struck up a conversation with a twenty-something year old guy who had excellent tattoos. He lived a couple hours away, far enough to be a buffer for realism. How could anyone want to get a disease, especially one so serious?
“Besides,” he wrote.
He confirmed. How could someone want the very thing that wreaked havoc in my own life? He didn’t apologize, and reignited the pressure to have sex. It is also called ‘pozzing’, ‘stealthing’, ‘breeding’ and ‘gift giving’. I switched the conversation and asked him what this was all about. I didn’t want to ruin his fantasy by telling him about my own reality, so I played along as he begged me to fuck him.
But for me and most with HIV, being infected was devastating mistake. One should be mindful that those engaging in bug chasing may be struggling with mental health issues, problematic drug use, and/ or addiction.
Given the widespread success of HIV treatment and PrEP and greater awareness of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) bug chasers have fewer opportunities to contract HIV.
In porn, it’s also worth mentioning that when a guy asks another to give him his ‘poz load’, you don’t know if they are both HIV positive or if one is HIV positive on meds but the other is on PrEP.
Updating this November 2023, one of our volunteers (who states his HIV-positive status on his app profile) says he’s asked every few months if he’ll poz someone including coming off his meds to do so.
I would rather get it from you than some jerk.”
With this little flattery, he did hit close to home. In our little private chat window he began describing all of the dirty things he wanted to do with me – he loved to bottom and even bareback.