Hoax Alert: There are sex roulette games in Spain which combine random sex & HIV

Two HIV drugs are on Thomson Reuter’s list of seven blockbuster medicines to watch in 2016, indicating how the medical community is pursuing treatments and cures for the virus. But in an apparent disregard for safe sex practices, a game said to originate from Spain places people at risk of acquiring HIV.

The game is sex roulette which allegedly involves multiple people showing up for a sex party, and one of the partygoers secretly has HIV or AIDS. All participants to the orgy are not allowed to wear a condom.

However, the New York Post points out it could be a hoax because the source of the story is a mysterious stripper, Tijana. The daily also says it was a new trend among gay men which made the LGBT community to call it fear mongering.

Mirror cites a Dr Josep Mallolas of Hospital Clinic in Barcelona as saying these events are also called blue parties because those who attend take anti-viral drugs to cut the risk of transmitting the HIV virus. He adds only those who already have HIV are allowed to attend such kinds of parties.

But Snopes, a website that debunks internet hoaxes, notes that it is tabloids which have been reporting about the sex roulette parties. The portal says there is no credible evidence of the existence of such parties, and none of the media outlets that reported it carried firsthand reports.

Snopes compares the sex roulette stories to previous incidents involving bug chasing, sex bracelets, gerbiling and lobster-based gratification gone wrong as based only on extrapolations. The website considers it another gay sex urban legend.