Name: Anonymous 2018-02-01 19:40
A C programmer is like an AIDS bugchaser. C programmers did it to themselves but they're not content with ruining their own community. They want their bugs to be everywhere. These articles could be about C programmers.
http://www.sfweekly.com/topstories/undercover-look-inside-world-hiv-bug-chasers-gift-givers/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-excess/201410/contract-killing
http://www.sfweekly.com/topstories/undercover-look-inside-world-hiv-bug-chasers-gift-givers/
There have been very few peer-reviewed studies into what motivates men to spread HIV. In an earlier era, when infections were much more common and much deadlier, researchers like the psychologist Damien Riggs theorized that it boiled down to loneliness, that these men might be seeking out HIV infection in order to “overcome difference” and feel part of the larger gay community. But in 2016, with infections way down, that motivation seems unlikely.
Is it instead a kind of slow suicide? Is it mental illness? Is it ignorance? Perhaps not surprisingly, the answers were not clearly reducible to any pat formulas.
Rather than seeming depressed or suicidal, many of the newly positive men I spoke with indicated that they were enjoying their lives more than ever before.
Rather than being ignorant of the consequences of their actions, most seemed very informed about the risks they were taking. Of course, those risks included forgoing condoms, but some chasers also described in detail additional measures that they were taking to increase the risk of becoming infected. Some, for example, irritated their rectum with a rough toothbrush before intercourse to create abrasions.
Rather than clearly being mentally ill, some spoke relatively eloquently about why they had decided to begin “chasing.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-excess/201410/contract-killing
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 practice of people (usually gay or bisexual men) deliberately engaging in unprotected (‘bareback’) sex with men who are known to be HIV-positive in an attempt to contract the HIV virus (“bug”) themselves (hence the name ‘pozzing’ deriving from the word ‘positive’). This has led to knowing recipients of bug chasers being called ‘gift givers’ (i.e., those that allow sexual partners to contract the HIV virus). Despite some people believing the practice to be a complete myth, empirical research does indeed conform the existence of the practice (and there's even a short 2012 film on the topic called 'Bug Chaser'). However, there is a clear distinction concerning intent between those who don’t want to engage in protective sex because they prefer penetrative sex and/or prefer sex without condoms (the so-called ‘barebackers’), and those who don’t want to engage in unprotected sex in order to contract a life-threatening sexually transmitted disease (so-called ‘bug chasers’). The consequence of this clear distinction means that all bug chasers are barebackers but not all barebackers are bug chasers.
Research has been carried out suggesting various reasons for why men would want to deliberately contract HIV. Dr. In a 2004 paper in the British Journal of Social Psychology, Dr. Michele Crossley some men indicate that the practice is highly exciting because it is such a highly risky behaviour (in that they could ultimately die from contracting the virus). However, such a reason suggests that such individuals don’t actually want to contract HIV (and seems psychologically akin to playing Russian roulette). The same paper also noted that some bug chasers appear to be very lonely people who want to contract AIDS so that they will receive the attention, nurturance and care that they feel they need (and therefore share similarities with those who have Munchausen’s Syndrome). Similarly, others see the contracting of HIV as way becoming part of a community that elicits public sympathy and caretaking.