Does Anyone Still Remember When Sex Was Fun?: Positive Sexuality in the Age of AIDS (Paperback)

~ Peter B. Anderson (Author), Diane De Mauro (Author), Raymond J. Noonan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company; 3 edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787227234
• ISBN-13: 978-0787227234
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,411,820 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A refreshing counterpoint to AIDS-teria, January 18, 2001

By	James R. Fleckenstein "navalgamer" (Herndon, VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A great collection of essays from people in the front lines of emerging sexuality, this book is a good read for anyone who wants a more balanced view of contemporary sexuality. The essays discuss the science of AIDS and other STD transmission, strategies for coping/prevention, truly risky behaviors versus "perceived" risky behaviors, and sexuality from the perspectives of women, men, gays, straights, and youth.

There are parts of the book where the services of a better copyeditor might have been valuable, but that's not enough to be a real problem - just stay with it when it meanders a bit, you'll get the point eventually.

Though the pace of science makes some of the material (I read the 1996 edition) a tad dated, it is still a good counterweight to the unreasonable fearmongering of sexual repressionists and the naive media. Their conscious or unconscious "disinformation" concerning the very real, but extremely limited, AIDS phenomenon has negatively influenced the thinking too many otherwise sensible folks.