• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    I dunno if it’s really a hobby, but one time I heard about bug collectors. They’re not people who go around catching insects, instead they’re people who go around catching STDs. On purpose.

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      6 hours ago

      Oh, yeah. I remember reading the celebratory posts about the first person to contract HIV despite taking the anti-catching-HIV-drugs (yes, I know the word prophylactic, I just think my words are funnier).

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        Actually, from what little I recall about it, I think they do alert their partners about it, or maybe they just stuck with fellow bug collectors.

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          There’s a few who have a kink of spreading those parasites to unknowing people. Back when the internet was a village I made a wrong turn and can’t un-know this now…