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"Using as its base the gay community of West Hollywood, California, this work profiles seven gay men. In candid, in-depth interviews, they discuss their experiences in the age of AIDS, their attitudes towards sex, and their motives for engaging in behaviours that are considered to be dangerous health risks. Their testimonies prompt a reassessment of the ""relapse"" model. The sheer diversity of the gay community must be taken into account if health educators and activists are going to be effective: rather than seeking to eradicate unsafe sex, a more realistic goal is the reduction of risky behaviour. Citing alternative ""prevention management"" approaches, the author recommends ways to promote safer sexual practices that reduce the risk of AIDS, while repecting the choices and judgements of gay men."

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Turner presents a well-designed study... of sexual behaviors of HIV negative gay men...between the ages of 30 and 44, living in West Hollywood... in the early 1990s... He found that the men practiced safer sex almost all the time, but also on occasion had unprotected anal sex. Turner relates his findings to the probable evolutionary origins of basic human urges, and describes probable interactions between these urges and the cultures that coevolved along with human biology... Although methodologically and theoretically sophisticated, the book is also as lucid and well written as a good novel. -- Choice

"""Turner presents a well-designed study... of sexual behaviors of HIV negative gay men...between the ages of 30 and 44, living in West Hollywood... in the early 1990s... He found that the men practiced safer sex almost all the time, but also on occasion had unprotected anal sex. Turner relates his findings to the probable evolutionary origins of basic human urges, and describes probable interactions between these urges and the cultures that coevolved along with human biology... Although methodologically and theoretically sophisticated, the book is also as lucid and well written as a good novel."" -- Choice"

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Dwayne C. Turner holds a Ph.D in anthropology and a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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