 | This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close,
personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal
relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and
AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this
work paints a clear picture of the very real risk that exists for these
less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better
personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures. Authors
Tara M. Emmers-Sommer and Mike Allen examine issues surrounding safer
sex, utilizing research that focuses on how individuals struggle with
personalizing the HIV and AIDS risk and how they cope with safer sex
issues. Safer Sex in Personal Relationships takes readers on a
journey through a variety of close relationship types. It begins by
highlighting awareness to the global enormity of HIV and AIDS and
providing a link between the global and personal, and the need to make
HIV and AIDS awareness part of everyday talk and personal relationship
structure. It then focuses on: |
- safer sex in close relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual
- marital relationships and the importance of safe sex discussion and awareness in marriages
- HIV and AIDS from a multicultural perspective
- HIV and AIDS in aged populations; and
- increasing awareness, understanding, and compassion of those living with HIV and AIDS.
This
book will appeal to scholars and students concerned with HIV and AIDS
in personal relationships. It will be an invaluable text for courses on
interpersonal communication and relationships; family, marital, human
sexuality, sex and gender, gay and lesbian relationships, and sexual
education; and relational conflict across communication, psychology,
and sociology disciplines.
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