Country United States Publication date 1982 Originally published 1982 | Language English Media type Print Subject Safe sex | |
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Television debut of safe r sex michael callen explains how to have sex in an epidemic
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach is a 1982 book by Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, under the direction of Joseph Sonnabend, to advise gay men about how to avoid contracting the infecting agent which causes AIDS.
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- Television debut of safe r sex michael callen explains how to have sex in an epidemic
- Historical significance
- References
Historical significance
Berkowitz and Callen published the book in 1982 at a time when gay men were first being diagnosed with AIDS. At this time HIV had not yet been identified as the cause of AIDS, but AIDS was a disease which was recognized as having some relationship with gay sex.
Social scientists have credited this book and a 1982 pamphlet called Fair Play! by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as being the first literature to recommend safe sex as a strategy for reducing the risk of contracting the transmitting agent which causes AIDS.