Monday, June 8, 2009

Barebacking and AIDS 2009

Barebacking and AIDS 2009 :: EDGE on the Net
Can a little loaded term like "barebacking"-used as a thinly veiled, homophobic demonization of unsafe sex practices-so effect an at-risk population that the resulting stigma becomes a significant contributing factor to an increase in HIV infection within that population? And if so, what’s to be done?

But before we explore the potent ways in which (to partially quote William S. Burroughs) "language is a virus," who exactly is at risk?

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