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Bisexuality And HIV/Aids: A Global Perspective (New Concepts in Human Sexuality)

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This anthology literally moves from west to east: it starts with American male bisexuality and AIDS and ends with the topic in New Zealand. Some of the chapters may feel repetitive because the issues are the same; only the cultural/political context differs. This is a great resource book for those interested in men of color that have relations with other men. This may also be an important text for AIDS activists, especially those involved on a global scale.

The majority of books on bisexuality and bisexual activism focus on women, but this book assumes "bisexuality" means "male bisexuality." It may be a bit androcentric, but it's so unique that it fascinated me. This book repeats a statistic that states more women contract HIV from drug users than bisexual men. All the media hysteria about same-gender-loving men infecting "innocent" communities does not stand up to scrutiny. A later book, "Beyond the Down Low" by Keith Boykin, explores this fact in further detail. Nevertheless, the equation of male bisexuality with AIDS may bother some readers tremendously as novel as this anthology may be.