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Gay Bathhouses and Public Health Policy (Paperback)
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Explore the impact of AIDS on the gay bathhouse culture Public
health policy on bathhouses has been limited and poorly documented.
This bookthe first to be published on this timely and important
topicwill help you become knowledgeable about gay bathhouses.
Unlike most other places where men have sex in public, gay
bathhouses are subject to government-imposed health regulations.
Gay Bathhouses and Public Health Policy examines the bathhouse
environment and how it differs from other public sex environments.
It describes public policies that have been implemented, discussing
policies for HIV prevention, testing, and intervention; issues
related to civil liberties; and the legal aspects of these
policies. This essential book also includes a fascinating chapter
about other types of sex businessesbookstores, theaters, and sex
clubsand how public policy affected them in the early years of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic. Helpful tables and figures make the information
in this well referenced book easy to access and understand. From
the editors: From a public health perspective, the baths first came
to attention as a result of an exponential increase in sexually
transmitted infections among men in the 1970s. The spread of these
infections among gay men stimulated the public health community to
seek ways to combat them. Although there appears to have been some
mention of closing bathhouses as an approach, the predominant
message was to educate, test, and treat. Of course, AIDS was a
different matter in a different time. By early 1984, the once rare
call for closure had gained a powerful voice as well as support in
powerful gay circles. The tension between the baths and public
heath that resulted from the closure debates continues to exist in
some cities, but there are also a number of examples of health
professionals from local health departments and academic
institutions who have established good relationships with owners
and managers of bathhouses. Today, 40 of bathhouses in the United
States offer HIV testing, which typically requires collaboration
either with the local health department or with community-based
organizations that run outreach HIV-testing programs. Gay
Bathhouses and Public Health Policy will inform you about: the
unique relationship between bathhouse patrons and the environment
within which they engage in sexual activities the history of gay
bathhouses in the United States, including their transformation
from Turkish baths, Russian baths, public baths, health resorts,
and spas into gay institutions the San Francisco bathhouse battles
of 1984 and their impact on civil liberties, AIDS awareness, and
health policy the legal aspects of regulating
bathhouseshighlighting cases from 1984 to 1995 where the government
sought to close a sex-facilitating business or where such a
business sought to invalidate laws and ordinances banning sexual
activity an uncensored 1984 report from Coming Up! magazine on
sexual activity at bathhouses how the city of Seattle designed and
implemented an HIV-counseling and testing program for bathhouses
and more!
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