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2006 U. Chi. Legal F. 389 (2006)
Criminalizing Consensual Transmission of HIV

handle is hein.journals/uchclf2006 and id is 393 raw text is: Comments Criminalizing Consensual Transmission of HIV Amanda Weisst INTRODUCTION In February of 2003, a shocking and controversial article appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. The author, Gregory A. Freeman, identified a troubling practice among a minority of gay men: bug-chasing.1 Freeman's bug-chasers are HIV-negative gay men who actively seek out infection, arranging to have un- protected sexual intercourse with infected partners.2 This sub- culture is fueled by the internet, with bug-chasers and gift- givers (HIV-positive men willing to infect HIV-negative men) posting messages on specialized gay websites. The article quotes an authority attributing 25 percent of new infections among gay men to bug-chasing.4 While that authority has since claimed that Freeman fabricated his quotes5 and others have questioned Freeman's statistics,6 there is a general consensus that the phe- t B.A. 1997, Amherst College; M.A. 1998, Fordham University; J.D. Candidate 2007, University of Chicago. 1 Gregory A. Freeman, In Search of Death, Rolling Stone 45 (Feb 6, 2003). 2 Id. 3 Id. 4 Id (With about 40,000 new infections in the United States per year, according to government reports, that would mean around 10,000 each year are attributable to that more liberal definition of bug-chasing.). 5 Dan Savage, Savage Love: Are Gay Men Intentionaly Contracting HIV, The Village Voice (Jan 29-Feb 4, 2003) (noting that Freeman's source accused him of fabricat- ing quotes). 6 Seth Mnookin, Is Rolling Stone's HIV Story Wildly Exaggerated, Newsweek Web Exclusive (Jan 23, 2003). 389

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