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Originally posted by Little32
I read the article about bug-chasing...and more than feeling disgusted, I find it infinitely sad. I think that it is yet another manifestation of this interanalized self-loathing. Why else would someone seek to give this disease to other gay men. The article seems to suggest that this phenomenon is isolated--at this point at least--within the gay community. And to me it seems to suggest that these men and others like them (i.e. homosexual), on some level, don't feel as though they deserve to live healty long lives. The way the article ended with the guy saying that the thought of giving someone HIV was like murdering them does even more to support this interpretation.
Similarly, I have looked at that ebonymale website and my impressions are the same....intense sadness that these men choose to live like this. Some of the guys on the site are openly gay, but many are not. I don't condone those living a DL lifestyle, but now coupled with my anger I feel sad.
Like Iotagirl, this issue scares me. Makes me think more and more about how I am not into the idea of promiscuity ("sexual liberation"), how hard it is to even think about love and romance when your life is always at stake, which makes it difficult to have a relationship...let alone think about physical intimacy.
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I just went back to the beginning of this thread and read that Bug Chaser article in Rolling Stone, (sorry I am late with that, I thought this thread was just about the DL brother that was on Oprah.) Anyway, this article just proves to me that there is some wisdom in my stance on celibacy. These sick son of a guns in this article just turned this whole HIV/DL thing up about another 20 notches for me. I am stunned, I thought that I had seen and heard it all, but this right here takes the cake. I remember Eddie Murphy talked about this in his movie Raw. He said something about sex becoming like putting you D@#! on the crap table every night, one day it is going to get to the point we you just put it in a explode (literally). If things keep going like they going, we all going be walking around singing that Tweet song.