Posted on Oct 11, 2017
In Barebacking Culture, H.I.V. Is Embraced, Not Avoided
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Remember that crazy CA Law about HIV ??
I just read this. I'm still in disbelief.
Some gay men are using H.I.V. to create relationships. They avoid condoms and seek to share the virus to forge connections.
Viral transmission is described by some men in the subculture as “gift giving.” At least since Marcel Mauss, anthropologists have understood gift exchange as a way of making and consolidating relationships, and it is no different with H.I.V. In the idiom of bareback subculture, H.I.V. is the gift that keeps on giving.
Look we all understand that everyone makes their own choices.
We also understand that curing HIV is a goal for all of humanity.
But walking in front of the fire fighters and throwing gas on the fire just has me puzzled.
If a cure was found for HIV next week would these people be trying to save it from extinction ??
Thoughts ??
I just read this. I'm still in disbelief.
Some gay men are using H.I.V. to create relationships. They avoid condoms and seek to share the virus to forge connections.
Viral transmission is described by some men in the subculture as “gift giving.” At least since Marcel Mauss, anthropologists have understood gift exchange as a way of making and consolidating relationships, and it is no different with H.I.V. In the idiom of bareback subculture, H.I.V. is the gift that keeps on giving.
Look we all understand that everyone makes their own choices.
We also understand that curing HIV is a goal for all of humanity.
But walking in front of the fire fighters and throwing gas on the fire just has me puzzled.
If a cure was found for HIV next week would these people be trying to save it from extinction ??
Thoughts ??
In Barebacking Culture, H.I.V. Is Embraced, Not Avoided
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This kind of sort of supports that whole mental illness argument, doesn't it?
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PFC Lisa McDonald
The LGBT as a group was created by using the most visible, and sexually and legally deviant to drag everyone else into it.
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Wow, I thought that might be an Onion story at first. Hard to believe anyone would consider a potentially deadly disease a gift and a way to bond. It might be easier to jump off a tall building together or something than to die slowly from an incurable disease.
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LT Brad McInnis
And they wonder why we want to prevent them from donating blood without proper screening...
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