This chapter analyzes patterns of the interactional stance on blogs written by self-identified barebackers, gay men who eschew the use of condoms. In the early part of the twenty-first century, barebacker subculture was highly controversial as barebackers were often portrayed both as rejecting commonsense advice from public health officials and as dangerous for potentially putting their sexual partners at risk for HIV infection. After a discussion of the controversies that surrounded barebacker identity, the chapter examines various types of stance in barebacker discourse. Barebackers use stance to realign the arguments surrounding safe sex to emphasize knowledge about disease transmission and possible risks (rather than the use of condoms) as critical to disease prevention. The barebacker discourse analyzed here also uses instrumental stance to construct an identity founded in a natural desire for semen, which is impeded by condom use.