Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with one man, and they had heavy emotional and social investments in believing or maintaining that their partners were faithful to them.
Uninvolved women had similarly heavy investments in their abilities to identify or choose potential partners who were HIV-negative. Women did not see themselves as being at risk for HIV infection, and so they saw no need for condoms. But they did recommend that other women, whom they saw as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men, use them.
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The popular and scientific media often describe people who are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection but fail to use condoms as being "in denial." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extraconjugal sex, clinic interviewees, condomless sex, urban minority women, clinic focus group, seropositive people, condom use rates, focus group women, poor urban women, condom users, monogamy ideal, clinic clients, secondary partners, optimistic bias, unsafe sex, jealous partners, materialist models, last sexual encounters, questionnaire respondents, casual partners, risk denial Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Wisdom Narrative, African American, Monogamy Narrative, New Mexico, National Health Interview Survey, North End, Las Cruces, Fighting the Sickness, Nation of Islam, New York Times, Vander Linden, Barbara Limandri, Margaret Ruble, Nation's Health, Neil Weinstein, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, The Final Call, White Establishment New!
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The popular and scientific media often describe people who are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection but fail to use condoms as being "in denial." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extraconjugal sex, clinic interviewees, condomless sex, urban minority women, clinic focus group, seropositive people, condom use rates, focus group women, poor urban women, condom users, monogamy ideal, clinic clients, secondary partners, optimistic bias, unsafe sex, jealous partners, materialist models, last sexual encounters, questionnaire respondents, casual partners, risk denial Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Wisdom Narrative, African American, Monogamy Narrative, New Mexico, National Health Interview Survey, North End, Las Cruces, Fighting the Sickness, Nation of Islam, New York Times, Vander Linden, Barbara Limandri, Margaret Ruble, Nation's Health, Neil Weinstein, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, The Final Call, White Establishment New!
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- The Time of AIDS: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method by Gilbert Herdt on 4 pages
- Adolescent Risk Taking by Nancy J. Bell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- About AIDS (Fyi) in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Primary Prevention of AIDS: Psychological Approaches (Primary Prevention of Psychopathology) by Vickie M. Mays in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Births and Power: Social Change and the Politics of Reproduction by W. Penn Handwerker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley Cohen in Back Matter
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