For those of you not in on the lingo, a bug chaser is an HIV negative dude trying to become HIV positive, because that’s hot. Note, they haven’t just eroticized bareback sex, they’ve eroticized sero-conversion. (That has to be up there with the people who eroticize their own castration.) Gift givers are the hiv positive dudes who help the bug chasers get what they want. <\/p>\n
If the givers (and chasers for that matter) never gave hiv to anyone who wasn’t a bug chaser and if the rest of us weren’t paying, literally, to help cover their medical expenses (not to mention the wide variety of other stds that bug chasers incubate and spread around) I suppose it wouldn’t be an ethical problem, anymore than suicide or self-cutting is.<\/p>\n
But the reality is, everyone else is paying for the bug-chasers. They are the new welfare queens, except these people really are actively seeking to be a burden society, even if they don’t think about it that way. Assuming they are lucky enough to be having all their medical needs seen to by private health insurance, everyone else with the same insurer is ponying up for their irresponsible behavior in premium and copay hikes. If not, they’re a drain on tax payer resources. AIDS meds aren’t cheap, and we have a system in place to pay for it. <\/p>\n
“HIV isn’t really a problem, we have meds now. And if you can’t afford them, you’ll get help paying.” One, last I heard, HIV meds had some nasty side effects. Two, they’re hideously expensive. Three, fuck you and your reliance on the public dole. Most people sensibly want to avoid HIV, but you want to follow this fucked up little fantasy of yours to your own destruction and then ask someone else to bail your idiot ass out? I almost wish we could make an exception. Not to subsidizing your meds, but to letting you have them at all. <\/p>\n
So, if you have any questions about it, yes, bug chasing is fucking immoral. And so is gift giving. Pull your selfish head out of your ass, and start using it to think. Maybe take a trip to Zimbabwe with the money you would have spent instead, where you can see what happens when the HIV+ population overwhelms the caregiving capacity of the society that holds them. Or just do everyone a favor and off yourself more quickly, and more definitely. <\/p>\n
I blame the shits who can’t see past the end of their dick for the recent accidental seroconversions of a number people I care about. Happy about it, I am not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For those of you not in on the lingo, a bug chaser is an HIV negative dude trying to become HIV positive, because that’s hot. Note, they haven’t just eroticized bareback sex, they’ve eroticized sero-conversion. (That has to be up there with the people who eroticize their own castration.) Gift givers are the hiv positive … Continue reading “The ethics of bug-chasing and gift-giving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}