Do you think 'Bug Chasing' is really a thing or just an urban myth created by homophobes?

Fringe element but yes, they exist.

I don't even want to google this.

There will always be outliers. Doesn’t make whatever they’re doing common or even a “thing.”

It was a thing in the 1990s.

I see guys on the online apps asking for this. Crazy! I always wonder if they are fakes.

There are blogs and websites devoted to it. And it's a real thing - filling up a whore with loads is very hot. But purposely pozzing a guy is more like being a Barbra Streisand fan. She has less than half a million followers in the whole world, yet dudes on DL think she's popular.

It's absolutely real. They do it so they can then have sex with anyone without worry. They think it's the highest form of liberation.

I thinks it's mainly lived in the fantasy realm

That is some really fucked up shit-definitely high on the mental illness spectrum.

I speak from knowledge here. A fellow member of Breeding Zone is in town. I sent him a message asking if he wanted to meet up. Although not discussed, meet up and have sex. I am HIV- and have carefully remained so. He texted me and asked if I was poz. Earlier this evening I answered a CL ad to top a fellow. He replied that he is on prep and wants a 'hot daddy' [his words] like me to cum inside him.

It's just weird that the HIV- guys are being singled out for their status, whereas years ago it was the other way around.

R10. WHAT?

Some people are just too fucked and stupid up to live...in an ideal world that would be literal.

R10, to sum up my very meandering stream of consciousness post: no, bug chasing is not an urban myth. Yes, I find it totally weird that whereas 25 years ago the word 'safe' would be included in every pre-hook-up exchange, 'are you poz' as in, 'are you going to bareback me and hopefully pass on your strain of HIV?"

OP = master of dated generic topics

It's a myth which was long ago debunked, but it's extraordinary how many people still believe it.

R14 Who forced you to read it? Not everyone has been reading DL 24/7 for 20 years like you. Some people have jobs.

R15 Please elaborate- when was it debunked and by whom?

its absolutely true, whether they are "bug-chasing" or being "knocked up," there are gay man wanting to become infected with hiv. And even if they aren't necessarily describing it in these terms, this is what the goal of barebacking is, especially when there are questions asked about status.

If it weren't at the very least a sick fantasy for some guys then porn studios like Treasure Island, Breed Me Raw and Dark Alley wouldn't exist.