Safety In Numbers: Safer Sex and Gay Men [Paperback]

Edward King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 27, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0415909317 | ISBN-13: 978-0415909310 | Edition: 1

Gay men remain the group primarily affected by the AIDS epidemic in most industrialized countries. Although governments and AIDS organizations increasingly stress the dangers of a heterosexual HIV epidemic, it is gay men who are still bearing the brunt of the crisis.

Safety in Numbers provides a comprehensive overview of safer sex education for gay men. Edward King offers a critical analysis of the systematic downplaying of the involvement of gay men in the HIV epidemic and demonstrates conclusively how those at greatest risk form HIV have become the most neglected. By looking back over the successes of groups such as Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP Safety in Numbers provides an accessible and essential guide to meeting current and future needs in the fight against AIDS.

Product Details

• Paperback: 302 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 27, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415909317
• ISBN-13: 978-0415909310
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,197,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Partially interesting, June 13, 2000

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This review is from: Safety In Numbers: Safer Sex and Gay Men (Paperback)

This is effectively the manifesto of Gay Men Fighting AIDS, a London-based group consisting of gay men, umm, fighting HIV/Aids in the gay community.

You'll notice that the word 'gay' appears a lot in the first paragraph, well that's like the book. So, although much of the material in the book is relevant to any one interested in men who have sex with men, whether they identify as gay, bisexual, straight (yep!) or have no sexual idenity as such, Edward King really isn't interested in anything other than the gay identified ones.

So, one section quotes extensively from a paper in "Risks Worth Taking", the report of a 1991 conference. The paper talks about how the Terrence Higgins Trust (the leading UK HIV organisation) came about and King praises it as an example of a community based group. Just about the only bits he doesn't quote are the lines along the lines of 'because virtually all the THT's founders were white gay men, we didn't do enough for bisexuals or black/Asian men'.

Curiously the beloved GMFA has made exactly the same mistake.

Sections of the book are excellent -- especially the one on the risks of oral sex -- but overall it's a Curate's Egg as parts of it stink.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Insiteful, Informative. Love it!, April 18, 2000

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This review is from: Safety In Numbers: Safer Sex and Gay Men (Paperback)

I found this book to very informative and insightful. However I thought that some of the dialougue was hokey. This tells you pretty much everything you probably already know, but there are a few extras that I didnt know and it helps. There are alot of different siuations covered from intimacy, different types of contraceptives to loosing your lover to AIDS.