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Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men Paperback – May 1, 1998

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Plume (June 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0452277191
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452277199
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,063,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By A Customer on August 2, 1997
Format: Hardcover
The truth hurts and thank god someone finally told it about AIDS. As a gay man who is tired of hearing other gay people claim that religion, educators, the government and homophobia is responsible for transmission of HIV it is refreshing to find a well-reasoned voice showing that gay culture also contributed to the disaster that AIDS is. Mr. Rotello will most likely be crucified by gay theorists but his message is undeniable; unless gay culture finds a sustainable ecology it will continue exactly where it has been for the past 10 years----mired in a disaster
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Format: Paperback
I am amazed that I missed this book until a couple months ago. Indeed, it amazes me how few people have been motivated to write a review of it.

Rotello really explains in a simple sensible understandable fashion how the AIDS epidemic resulted from changes in technology , sexual role changes among gay males , social patterns of IV drug users (those in NYC shared needles in galleries while on the West Coast most used their own works at home and escaped the epidemic) and finally how hyperpromiscuity in large cities were the core centers for spreading this epidemic.

Most importantly, Rotello sees a continuing disaster in the gay community if old patterns of multi-partner 1970s promiscuity are reverted to by today's generation.

This is a must read book for anyone touched by this disease. It should get 50 stars.
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Format: Paperback
Every gay man must read this book, or be made aware of its content. Even one more death is way too many. What needs taming is not "normal promiscuity" -- say 10 to 50 partners a year. (!) The problem is "hyperpromiscuity" -- gay men who are having a thousand partners a year, and a dozen in one night. This created the biological climate which enabled the spread of AIDS; without it, there would have been no epidemic.
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Format: Hardcover
Gabriel Rotello has done a such a great service to the gay community by writing this powerful book. It is provocative and controversial only because the truth hurts sometimes. We've gone for so long not wanting to face reality in the gay world, not wanting to face the difficult challenges, not wanting to do the things that we must do if we are to alter the course of the epidemic. Rotello isn't afraid to face these things, nor is he afraid of the attacks that come when someone does raise the thorny but important issues. I thank him enormously for this book and urge every gay man to read it.
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