[click image to enlarge]Just what do gay men want anyway?
On Thursday, April 17, a community forum on gay men’s health featuring author Dr. David Halperin will be held at the Center on Halsted in Chicago.
In addition to Dr. Halperin, panel experts include Dr.
The event begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Irving Harris Family Foundation Reception Hall at the Center on Halsted – 3656 N. Halsted. Light refreshments will be served. A book signing with Dr. Halperin will take place at the conclusion of the forum.
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The lively debate will explore gay men’s relation to sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or condomless sex—and will confront the inaccurate and damaging psychological concepts that are used to describe gay men.
Headliner Dr. Halperin is the author of What Do Gay Men Want?, a provocative essay that exposes the overwrought clichés about gay men’s alleged low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and various psychological “deficits.” Halperin offers a unique, fresh understanding of gay men’s inner lives and challenges the common moral assumptions about “good” and “bad” sex.
“We are living in dangerous times,” says Halperin. “The old rule of ‘use a condom every time’ is losing its force, but new strategies for limiting the spread of HIV infection are still in their infancy, and we have yet to work out another set of communal standards for sexual behavior that balance our desires for pleasure, affirmation, and human contact against the degrees of risk we are collectively willing to accept. We have a lot to talk about.”
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Hope to see you all there!
Would potential sex partners want to reduce ambiguity about whether or not we could have any infections before we have sex?... like human immunodeficiency virus or other sexually transmitted infections
ReplyDeleteNature sets us up for sex and let any infections multiply.