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June 2007, Vol 97, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 972-973
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.113365

EDITORIAL

Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights

Richard G. Parker, PhD

Richard G. Parker is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, NY, and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Rio de Janeiro.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Richard G. Parker, PhD, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: rgp11@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Over the past 25 years, there has been a veritable explosion of public health research on sexuality. Never have sex and sexual matters been more topical or more worthy of scientific attention.

After a brief interlude of research attention to the subject of sex in the mid-20th century, when the controversial Kinsey studies were published, research focusing on sexuality at the population level languished, and financial support for such work was almost nonexistent. Particularly in the wake of the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, the consequences of this long-term neglect of inquiry into sexuality and health became apparent, as . . . [Full Text]


   SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
 

   SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
 





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