coughing a few times to clear my throat. “No, not that kind of bug catcher. A bug catcher, in the slang vernacular, is someone with a paraphilia, a fetish for sexually transmitted infections, deliberately allowing themselves to be infected. Contracting HIV is the ultimate goal of bug catching. It’s the piece de resistance, the grand prize. The problem for most bug catchers is that the journey toward the grand prize is littered with many other STDs. But that wasn’t a problem for me,” I said, beaming proudly. “I wanted them too. I wanted every sexually transmitted infection known and unknown to
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