Before I went away I wrote one of the most interesting pieces I’ve been asked to do for ages, for the Big Issue in the North’s World Aids Day coverage. It looked at the phenomenon of “bug chasing” – a minority of gay men who claim to be actively seeking the HIV virus.
There’s plenty of big talk about this on the internet, but no one’s quite sure whether it’s really happening or not. Most within the HIV field are sceptical but others swear there’s more to it than just an urban myth.
Whatever the truth is, there’s no doubt that some people are now eroticising HIV, if only in their fantasies. It’s a difficult one to get your head around. Click on the jpegs to read it in full…