The eroticizing of HIV : viral fantasies. / / Jaime García-Iglesias

• Autore: García-Iglesias Jaime
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (133 pages)
• Disciplina: 910.02
• Soggetto topico: Gay men - Sexual behavior
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Foreplay -- 1.1 Breeding Stories -- 1.2 Delineating the Context -- 1.3 Existing Work on Bugchasing -- 1.3.1 New Meanings for HIV -- 1.4 Theoretical Influences -- 1.5 Who and Why -- 1.6 How to Chase a Chaser -- 1.7 The Chasers -- 1.8 The Chapters to Come -- References -- Chapter 2: What Is Bugchasing? -- 2.1 The Challenges of Defining Bugchasing -- 2.2 Bugchasing: Eroticising HIV -- 2.3 The Face of Bugchasing -- References -- Chapter 3: Viral Fantasies -- 3.1 Marvin: Entertainment and Fantasy -- 3.2 Clive: Bugchasing as a Way of Life -- 3.3 David: Desires that Come and Go -- 3.4 Fantasy and Reality -- 3.5 Fantasy and the Internet -- References -- Chapter 4: Bugchasing: A Computer Virus? -- 4.1 Jerk off and Log off -- 4.1.1 The Importance of the Internet -- 4.1.2 Masking Identity -- 4.1.3 Sociality: From Friends to the 'Bare Minimum' -- 4.2 But Do They Really Want It? -- 4.2.1 Finding Information About It and Giving It a Name -- 4.2.2 Experimenting with Desires -- 4.3 Viral Spill Over -- References -- Chapter 5: Medicated Fantasies: PrEP as the Blue Pill -- 5.1 PrEP and Viral Fantasies -- 5.1.1 What Is PrEP? -- 5.2 PrEP among Bugchasers -- 5.2.1 PrEP as Emasculating and a Chemical Condom -- 5.2.2 PrEP as 'Training Wheels' -- 5.3 PrEP Discontinuation -- 5.3.1 Milo: The Arousal of Risk -- 5.3.2 Luke: What If I Don't Take it? -- References -- Chapter 6: Medicated Fantasies: After HIV Diagnosis -- 6.1 Challenges of Exploring the Aftermath of Infection -- 6.2 HIV Medication -- 6.3 After Bugchasing -- 6.3.1 A Bugchasing Afterlife: To Be or Not to Be -- 6.3.2 Aside: The Gift-Giver -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Thinking Virus, Thinking Fantasy -- 7.1 Retracing Our Steps: Some Key Findings -- 7.2 Towards a Sociology of Sexual Fantasy -- References. ; Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The eroticizing of HIV
• ISBN: 9783031113529; 9783031113512
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910734890203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Health, Technology and Society