This paper explores experiences of PrEP, a HIV-prevention intervention, among bugchasers, gay men who eroticize HIV. While PrEP has been hailed as a “game changer” in HIV-prevention, little attention has been paid to why and how some people may discontinue it in the face of HIV risk, such as bugchasers do. This paper relies on interview data with bugchasers themselves to discuss the process of discontinuation and its effects. The paper argues that, for these men, discontinuation is a fluid, complex, and sometimes contradictory process. It also describes how participants perceived themselves as being at different stages of discontinuation. The paper also analyzes how these men see PrEP as a barrier to intimacy, risk, and a tool to negotiate their desires and identity: through discontinuing PrEP, these men are able to reflect on and build their identities as bugchasers.

本文探讨了 PrEP 的经验，这是一种 HIV 预防干预措施，在追踪 HIV 的男同性恋者中进行。虽然 PrEP 被誉为 HIV 预防的“游戏规则改变者”，但很少有人关注为什么以及如何某些人在面对 HIV 风险时可能会停止使用它，例如 bugchasers。本文依靠与漏洞追踪者本人的访谈数据来讨论停产过程及其影响。该论文认为，对于这些人来说，停药是一个流动的、复杂的，有时甚至是矛盾的过程。它还描述了参与者如何看待自己处于不同的戒断阶段。该论文还分析了这些男性如何将 PrEP 视为亲密关系的障碍、风险以及协商他们的欲望和身份的工具：通过停止 PrEP，