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The Technologies of Safer Sex

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ID11261386
AuthorsLisa Jean Moore (0000-0001-7572-575X, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume22
Issue4
Pages434-471
Publication date1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/016224399702200402
OpenAlexW2138720881
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited47

Safer sex has emerged as a collection of practices and ideas deployed to combat the spread of AIDS. Prevention messages and rituals of safer sex each rely on constructing a potential user's relationship to latex devices. This article is based on an analysis of twenty-seven interviews conducted with people in the sex trade. Since sex workers make it their business to exchange sexual services for economic compensation, many have become extremely sophisticated in their innovations and expressions of eroticism using safer sex techniques. Sex workers are one of a group of key (new) knowledge producers focused on safer sexual practices. Their worlds are metaphoric laboratories for empiri cal studies of emergent sexual practices. This article describes the innovations of the use of technologies of safer sex and the configuration of users

Computer security · Condom · Eroticism · Human sexuality · Internet privacy · Political science · Public relations · SAFER · Safer sex · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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