This video was recently shown to me and I honestly could not write my reaction out because it would not be school appropriate. The idiocy of the people that participate in this sort of subculture is astounding. The film maker in the video claims that the people that are taking part in this activity do so because they are looking for acceptance and because they think its not a very big deal to be HIV positive. The one man the film maker says thought he could just take a pill and be cured. This all amazes me because I know that HIV is a very serious illness that has absolutely no cure. The information has been presented to me time and time again so I do not know how someone could be clueless about that. The other reason mainly presented is that the men that want to be HIV positive want to be so because they're in a relationship with someone who already is and want to be able to continue that relationship. This is a very noble idea but the thought of giving yourself a life ending illness to maintain a relationship seems incredibly naive. Were I infected with a life threatening illness and dating someone, I would not want to inflict them with the same terrible thing that I have, I would want them to have an easier life. I really hope the film that is talked about in the video is enough to educate people and end this ridiculous subculture. It is truly the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time and needs to be ended immediately.
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Wow...this is probably the scariest thing I have read about in a long time. I can't imagine how much misinformation or misperception of an illness it must take to actually get someone to want to have it. Especially a disease as deadly as HIV. I think that some kind of intervention is needed to educate these people about what it is really like living with HIV/AIDS.
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't it a felony for an HIV positive person to knowingly have unprotected sex with someone who is HIV negative? Even with their consent I would think that the "gift givers" would at least be put on the same level as someone who assisted in a suicide or euthanasia. In the end the person they are "helping" still ends up dead- but with HIV that newly infected person could take tens or hundreds of other people with them.
Very few things really freak me out, but this...I can't even describe how I feel. There aren't words.