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Man Had Sex with 365 Men in 365 Days, for Art.
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Two years ago, Mischa Badasyan, a Russian-born, Berlin-based performance artist, set himself a challenge: to organize a date every day for a year. More importantly, he forced himself to have sex every day, whether with that date or not. While it may sound like a convenient way to live out a fantasy, for Badasyan, the project—titled Save the Date—was often a harrowing experience.
At the project's outset, it seemed as though the result would reflect upon the easy consumption of sex brought about by the location-based dating app revolution—apps like Grindr and Scruff, which make finding people nearby to chat with, meet, date and hookup easier than ever, and which have changed a large swath of gay culture.
But Badasyan said responses he received on apps, where often people not only declined his offer for a date but launched scathing attacks upon him, were too upsetting to bear. So he tried a more traditional approach—cruising Berlin's parks and streets.
Badasyan slept with a huge variety of people over 365 days and nights, from a 76-year-old journalist to a Berlin-based Scottish yoga instructor and at least one Serbian **** star. During the year, Badasyan travelled to and slept with people in Sweden, Denmark, Holland, the Czech Republic and Poland.
He also dated several HIV-positive partners. He had previously worked in HIV activism and had been provided free condoms for the project by a German HIV organization, but the project marked his first time sleeping with positive men. "I was always scared of sexual contact with positive people," he wrote on Facebook. "Save The Date changed my life and my reality."
"My sexuality is very strange now," he said. "I don't go on dates with gay people anymore. The only way [I can] enjoy sex is voyeurism in men's bathrooms, and by picking up of straight, bi, and undecided guys in the street in Berlin."
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