Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking
'With true compassion and broadness of vision, Michael Shernoff has faced head-on the complex and provocative topic of unprotected gay sex and its possible physiological, psychological, and public health consequences. Utilizing many voices - the voice of a therapist, of an activist, and of a gay man living with HIV -Without Condomsreaches a wide audience with its sex-positive stance and enduring humanity. This is a necessary resource for health professionals, those studying sexuality, gay and lesbian studies, and for all gay men interested in this urgent and timely topic.'- Eli Coleman, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA'For the last quarter century, the AIDS epidemic has forced upon gay men a horrible entanglement of sex, love, intimacy and death. Our response to this situation has too often offered rationalistic, sometimes angry, largely useless behavioral prescriptions that uncannily ignore the complexity of human emotional life. Michael Shernoff has managed to step well outside such rote response and return the subject to the complex, sensitive analysis it desperately requires. He does this with insight and devotion and has thus written a book that we all badly need. I am grateful.'-Walt Odets, clinical psychologist and author of In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS