Visigoths At Civilization’s Gates

The American Conservative:

VICE magazine travels to Berlin to report on the gay male culture leading to a sharp rise in STDs and HIV infections. Note:

But despite the risks and inconvenience, not to mention the cost to the state involved in treating a life-long infection (on average around 3,000 euros a month per infectee), many barebackers consciously contract the disease or see it as simply a matter of time before they will belong to the HIV community and therefore be able to have even wilder unprotected sex with other infected men.

That’s $3,500 per month, or $42,000 per year in cost to taxpayers to keep them from dying of AIDS and sexually active.

As part of the story, the reporter interviews a gay HIV+ prostitute who talks about the “fetish” of seeking to become infected. Excerpt:

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