Citation

Moskowitz DA, Roloff ME. Sex. Addict. Compuls. 2007; 14(1): 21-40.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10720160601150121

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study sought to explain the existence of a controversial subculture of gay men, a group whose main attribute is an active desire to voluntarily contract HIV. The following research reasons "bug chasing" as being symptomatic of sexual addiction. A quasi-randomized survey of personal advertisements of HIV-negative bug chasers and barebackers--gay men who intentionally eschew condom use without the desire to seroconvert--revealed that chasers were: (a) considerably different from their barebacker counterparts regarding paraphiliac activities, and (b) significantly more likely than barebackers to rank higher on behavioral and psychological measures of sexual addiction.

Language: en