Any Port in A Storm

Coming to Terms with HIV in Lao PDR

Bibliographic Data

ID15098259
AuthorsChris Lyttleton (0000-0002-8104-6953, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume1
Issue2
Pages115-130
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/136910599301058
PMID12295451
OpenAlexW2144891730
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This paper examines the aspects of sexual interaction in certain settings specifically in Laos to explore further the social background relevant to HIV epidemiology. In nightclubs and drink shops in Laotian towns, social regulations established an atmosphere wherein casual sexual interactions were primarily built through negotiation. Unequal power relations between men and women notwithstanding, because neither identities nor outcomes are always fixed, a discursive space is created for men and women that provides potential opportunity for ideas of safe sex to be incorporated as an integral part of practice emerging from these settings. Paradoxically, however, the very avoidance of public scrutiny that affords this negotiation between the two parties, denies open legitimization of safer sex practice. Also exemplified in this paper are the surveillance, practice, and the staging identity in which the author briefly discusses the issue

Aesthetics · Casual · Identity (music · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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