@article{ref1,
title="The ultimate high: sexual addiction and the bug chasing phenomenon",
journal="Sexual addiction and compulsivity",
year="2007",
author="Moskowitz, David A. and Roloff, Michael E.",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="21-40",
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 &quot;bug chasing&quot; 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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-0162",
doi="10.1080/10720160601150121",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720160601150121"
}