For decades, HIV was one of the most feared diagnoses in the world. Yet today, a small group of people actively seek to ...

The gay men online who get off on seeking HIV infection (“bug chasers”) aren’t exactly known for their thoughtful introspection. After all, they are eroticizing something that works exactly once — and ...

Why would anybody want to get infected with HIV? That is what most people ask when they first hear about “bug chasing”. In fact, a number of gay men, at least online, appear to clamour for HIV. They ...

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Despite being fairly well read on sexually extreme behaviour, it wasn’t until relatively recently that I came across the terms ‘bug chasing’ and ‘pozzing’. Both of these slang terms refer to the ...

In Louise Hogarth’s new documentary, “The Gift,” a soft-spoken, Midwestern college youth named Doug Hitzel tearfully recalls what drove him to become a “bug chaser” -- an HIV-negative man who seeks to ...

How much of an urban legend is Rolling Stone's controversial "Bug Chasers" story? As you may know if you've been following Drudge, Gregory Freeman's feature story about gay men who fetishize being ...

A controversial sexual fetish where people actively seek to contract HIV has been explored in a Channel 4 documentary. It’s a Sin actor Nathaniel J Hall, from Manchester, investigated the world of ...