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Is Rolling Stone’s HIV Story Wildly Exaggerated? By Seth Mnookin, NEWSWEEK WEB Jan. 23 — The Feb. 6 issue of Rolling Stone features what appears to be a groundbreaking investigative report, the kind of story that helped establish the magazine as a journalistic force in the 1960s and 1970s. The story is teased on the cover as 'SPECIAL REPORT—BUG CHASERS, THE MEN WHO LONG TO BE HIV+.' The majority of the piece focuses on Carlos, a gay New Yorker who seeks out HIV-positive partners and purposefully has unprotected sex. While the fringe phenomenon of gay men looking to get infected has been known about for years, the Rolling Stone story asserts that “bug chasers” are a significant phenomenon in the gay population...
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