Sexual risk behaviors have inspired profound ideas and effective
teamwork. But as the early history of AIDS demonstrates, when
sexual practice is part of the equation, the same bold thinkers may
be stymied, or just silent. Safe sex and monogamy have been
proposed as answers to a gamut of social problems, but there is
frequently little consensus on what these terms mean.
Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health replaces myth
and stereotype with meticulously documented findings on real people
and their behaviors in their social, environmental, and individual
contexts. Author Sana Loue examines the range of partnerships not
only in the U.S. but also Europe and the developing world, focusing
on both consenting relationships and exploitative sexual
interactions:
- Varieties of monogamy between consenting adults
- Relationships involving multiple adult partners
- Incest, pedophilia, and child marriage
- Sex work, trafficking, and pornography
- Fetishes and related behaviors
All chapters cogently address the health issues that arise from
these arrangements, concluding with implications for research,
prevention, and intervention.
Throughout, Loue argues for a common language across disciplines
and challenges her readersa "therapists, health care providers, and
policymakers alikea "to rethink their assumptions about clients,
their health needs, and the communities they represent.
"Dr. Loue's work is a truly significant scholarly contribution
to a topic too often characterized by pseudo-science and
ideological distortions. "Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and
Health" should prove an invaluable resource for researchers and
community practitioners alike inhelping understand dimensions of
sexual practice, and designing more effective approaches to sexual
health and violence prevention."
-Earl Pike, Executive Director, AIDS Taskforce of Greater
Cleveland
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