Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking

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Routledge, Jan 22, 2013 - Health & Fitness - 412 pages
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After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known as "barebacking," to speak for themselves on their willingness to risk it all.

Without Condoms takes a balanced look at the profound needs that are met by this seemingly reckless behavior, while at the same time exposing the role that both the Internet and club drugs like crystal methamphetamine play in facilitating high-risk sexual encounters. The result is a compassionate, sophisticated and nuanced insight into what for many people is one of the most perplexing aspects of today's gay male culture and life style. Michael Shernoff digs deep and forces us to see that the AIDS epidemic is not over. We must now ask the hard questions and listen to the voices that answer. The stakes are too high to ignore.

 

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Contents

Acknowledgements
1936
from cure
1970
CHAPTER THREE Why do men bareback? no easy answers
1997
CHAPTER FOUR Trips and slips
1997
CHAPTER FIVE Cruising the internet highway
male couples sex and
CHAPTER SEVEN Love sex and trust
CHAPTER EIGHT Can barebacking be curbed? what if anything works?
Endnotes
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2013)

Michael Shernoff is a Manhattan psychotherapist in private practice, and is on faculty at Columbia University School of Social Work. For seven years he was the online mental health expert for TheBody.com, the largest HIV/AIDS web site in the world. In the 1980s he coauthored the pioneering AIDS prevention workshop Eroticizing Safer Sex. He has written extensively on mental health issues of gay men and HIV/AIDS, and is a frequent lecturer and presenter at conferences worldwide.

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TitleWithout Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking
AuthorMichael Shernoff
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2013
ISBN1135416834, 9781135416836
Length412 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / AIDS & HIV
Psychology / Mental Health
Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling
Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
  
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