Bad Advice
How Not to Have Sex in an Epidemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11034900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M L Gro (0000-0001-5835-7879, Oldham Council, corresponding author), Michael Gross (0000-0001-9388-7373, Michael Gross, a former associate editor of the Journal, is an independent consultant, Long Beach, Calif.) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 964-966 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2006.087395 |
| PMID | 16670212 |
| PMCID | PMC1470618 |
| OpenAlex | W2020641819 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Like the paired snakes of the caduceus, pathology and homosexuality became intertwined when medicine propped up a post-Enlightenment decline in religious authority by transforming moral disapproval into diagnoses of disease. Sex between men entered public health discourse as “gay bowel syndrome,” decades before methodologically sound social surveys demonstrated that heterosexual couples account for a much larger proportion of episodes of anal intercourse than male dyads.1–3 Only a few years elapsed before a much more ominous condition came to the attention of US public health officials through the June 5, 1981, issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly newsletter, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.4,5 Gay-related immune deficiency (GRID) immediately eclipsed gay bowel syndrome. Although acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) quickly displaced GRID with a suitably generic descriptor for an equal opportunity infection, HIV still pathologizes homosexuality while most religious denominations continue to vilify it
Anal intercourse · Disease · Enlightenment · Family medicine · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Men who have sex with men · Pathology · Public health · Sociology · Syphilis · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception
Effects of a behavioural intervention to reduce acquisition of HIV infection among men who have sex with men
Declining Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Substance Use and High-Risk Sex Among People with HIV
Greater Risk for HIV Infection of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
The Second Wave Will Drown Us
HIV Counseling and Testing
Michael S. Gottlieb and the Identification of Aids
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |