{"id":19237,"date":"2019-02-16T19:17:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2019-02-16T19:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T19:17:41","slug":"do-some-people-really-want-to-get-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/do-some-people-really-want-to-get-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Do some people really want to get HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"hiv\" src=\"https:\/\/content.presspage.com\/uploads\/1369\/1920_hiv.jpg?10000\" alt=\"hiv\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why would anybody want to get infected with HIV? That is what most people ask when they first hear about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondpositive.org\/2014\/04\/16\/bug-chasing\/\">bug chasing<\/a>\u201d. In fact, a number of gay men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/da\/article\/mvnj3q\/the-gift-of-hiv\">at least online<\/a>, appear to clamour for HIV. They are known as \u201cbug chasers\u201d because they are literally \u201cchasing\u201d a \u201cbug\u201d \u2013 HIV.<\/p>\n<p>But do they really want it? To answer this question, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bugchasingproject.org\/\">I interviewed<\/a> men in the UK, US, France and Australia. While they all considered themselves to be bug chasers, their experiences were very different: one 69-year-old man spent his life working for an HIV charity; another, younger, participant works as a porn performer. For some, bug chasing plays a secondary role within their sexuality; for others, it is all they can think about. Some access bug chasing websites to find hook-ups or masturbate; others just spend many hours online engaging with others.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/discover\/news\/do-some-people-really-want-to-get-hiv\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Why would anybody want to get infected with HIV? That is what most people ask when they first hear about \u201cbug chasing\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}