The Gift That Keeps Giving

Australian news outlets are abuzz with the arrest of a 48-year old man who had regularly been holding HIV "conversion parties" in his Melbourne home. I've heard of such parties in NYC and SF, in which the bizarre, unthinkable, unthinking world of "bug chasers" is celebrated, and HIV-infected men proudly label themselves as "breeders", happily available to give "the gift" to otherwise healthy (but clearly not mentally so) men.

Serosorting, the practice of only having sex with those of the same HIV status, which has been credited with dropping HIV rates in Sydney and around the world, is out of the question for men whose fantasies revolve around the act of getting infected. However, similar to the men who willingly submitted to castration, there is no "un-do" for this one.