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June 2006, Vol 96, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 964-966
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.087395

EDITORIAL

Bad Advice: How Not to Have Sex in an Epidemic

Michael Gross, PhD

Michael Gross, a former associate editor of the Journal, is an independent consultant, Long Beach, Calif.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Michael Gross, PhD, 315 W 3rd St, #712, Long Beach, CA 90802 (e-mail: m144@earthlink.net).

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
 
Like the paired snakes of the caduceus, pathology and homosexuality became intertwined when medicine propped up a post-Enlightenment decline in religious authority by transforming moral disapproval into diagnoses of disease. Sex between men entered public health discourse as "gay bowel syndrome," decades before methodologically sound social surveys demonstrated that heterosexual couples account for a much larger proportion of episodes of anal intercourse than male dyads.1–3 Only a few years elapsed before a much more ominous condition came to the attention of US public health officials through the June 5, 1981, issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly . . . [Full Text]


   DIVISIVE IS AS DIVISIVE WAS
 

   BEHAVIORAL CONFABULATION
 

   WHEN MESSAGES MISFIRE
 

   A GOOD LIFE
 





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