Article: The sociology of barebacking.(ESSAY)

THE QUESTION of whether sex "is worth dying for" was posed by Michel Foucault in his History of Sexuality and speaks directly to why, in the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, gay men are still taking sexual risks. Beginning in the mid-1980's, a combination of factors influenced sexually active gay men around the world to make changes in the way they had sex, including a desire both to remain uninfected oneself and to avoid the risk of infecting others. Gay men started having fewer sex partners and, still more importantly, began using condoms during anal intercourse. These two factors caused the rate of new infections among gay and bisexual men to drop dramatically ...

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