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Heterosexual Anal Intercourse
heterosexual HIV transmission misconceptions
Heterosexual Transmission
HIV Infection
HIV Transmission
HIV transmission research
Homosexual Male Sample
Iv Drug User
Lifetime Number
Medial Preoptic Area
methodological critique AIDS studies
Partner Number
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Penile Vaginal Intercourse
Postpartum Abstinence
public health policy analysis
Receptive Anal Intercourse
Sensation Seeking
Seropositive Homosexual Men
sexual behavior epidemiology
sexual health statistics
Sexual Self-disclosure
Simple Operant Model
Vaginal Intercourse
Vaginal Transmission
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781560003090
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Politicians, interest groups, and the mass media often answer questions about how AIDS is sexually transmitted as if heterosexual vaginal intercourse is a high-risk activity. When it comes to understanding how AIDS is transmitted, and formulating effective policy to deal with the spread of AIDS, America remains confused. What. Brody calls ideological knowledge about AIDS is fat more likely to filter through society than scientific knowledge.Sex at Risk Is a comprehensive review of the scientific literature dealing with. the transmission of AIDS. Like Michael Fumento's The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, it exposes the mythology surrounding vaginal intercourse and AIDS transmission, Brody also looks deeply at reasons that fear of AIDS transmission from vaginal intercourse has spread so widely and profoundly, He addresses serious methodological problems in AIDS/HIV behavioral research, as well as tendentious political correctness that has done a disservice to science.Sex at Risk also comprehensively reviews the international research literature on correlates of lifetime number of sexual partners and frequency of sexual intercourse. Among topics covered are: relationships between lifetime number of sexual partners and mental health, explanations for important differences between intercourse and masturbation, the possible association of frequency with healthy functioning, and correlations between frequency and national development.Brody concludes by discussing what AIDS reveals about how politically correct thought impedes scientific progress, when taboo themes, regardless of their validity, cannot be pursued, Sex at Risk is factually grounded, yet controversial; . Brody raises critical questions about much of what we have learned about AIDS from popular and professional publications, "soft scientists," and public health campaigns. It will be of interest to medical doctors, clinicians, and those interested in the sociology and psychology of knowledge,
