Talk:How to Have Sex in an Epidemic

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Plans for article

Hi everyone, I'm working on expanding this article for a school project and I just wanted to post my plans in case anyone wanted to give advice/critiques during any stages of the writing process:

1. I’m planning to create a “content” section that summarizes the work itself, the lessons/model for sexual behavior that it promotes, etc. I was thinking of adding some sort of background section about the authors and their intentions beforehand, although I’m not sure if this is relevant enough to the page’s content. I would at least mention the primary and secondary authors and their professions, and address the immediate conditions that gave rise to the need for such a publication.)
2. In addition to the existing "historical significance" section, I will add a larger exploration of the effect that the work had on the LGBT community’s sexual practices, their views on sex and sexuality and gay culture, and the overall epidemic and wider norms related to sexual practices today.
3. The next section will be the controversy of the book, with subsections for the reception of the work by the LGBT and straight communities.
4. Somewhere in the article, likely in the "historical significance" section, I will discuss in more depth how it differed from a similar manual produced by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, entitled “Fair Play!.”

These changes should be completed by early-mid December at the latest.

The sources I’m planning on using are:

• “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic” by Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz, https://joeclark.org/dossiers/howtohavesexinanepidemic.pdf
• “Fair play!” by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, no online copy available
• “The Impact of AIDS on a Gay Community: Changes in Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Mental Health” by John L. Martin, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF00931037.pdf
• “Gay men and HIV/AIDS risk management” by Paul Flowers, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/136345930100500103
• “The Invention of Safer Sex: Vernacular Knowledge, Gay Politics and HIV Prevention” by Jeffrey Escoffier, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41035535.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A403e8b1b866fd1bb09ac16f2cc382d72
• How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic by Douglas Crimp — article
• Chapter 5, “Tricks, Friends and Lovers,” from Taboo: Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork by Ralph Bulton, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=iGqOBC0T1xEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA140&dq=impact+of+%22how+to+have+sex+in+an+epidemic%22&ots=CGJrpUkBIZ&sig=vsew2eEqpfkr37FvuOY7hjq8Yek#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS by Gary W. Dowsett, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Jm1s-jwt3SEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=impact+of+%22how+to+have+sex+in+an+epidemic%22&ots=YlWbzw2aEI&sig=jeFKkFtHSKnjt9DAX3cfk0vLaLQ#v=onepage&q=impact%20of%20%22how%20to%20have%20sex%20in%20an%20epidemic%22&f=false
• “'Coming Out' and Sexual Debut: Understanding the Social Context of HIV Risk-related Behaviour” by John Flowers et al., https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/40350729/Coming_out_and_sexual_debut_understandin20151124-24418-1us63xx.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1508636929&Signature=q%2F2eh7CmWOEVDRUBPVC6VN6RAdg%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DComing_out_and_sexual_debut_understandi.pdf
• Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS by R. W. Connell, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=O3N-M9f5Q_cC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=impact+of+%22how+to+have+sex+in+an+epidemic%22&ots=3n8PaGiGhW&sig=5sDpXEdMJAmhqTDEgQz_kCabOtQ#v=onepage&q=impact%20of%20%22how%20to%20have%20sex%20in%20an%20epidemic%22&f=false
• “Sexual behavior changes and HIV antibody in a cohort of New York City gay men” by John L Martin et al., http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.79.4.501
• “AIDS Risk Reduction Recommendations and Sexual Behavior Patterns among Gay Men: A Multifactorial Categorical Approach to Assessing Change” by John L. Martin, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/109019818601300406
• Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah B Gould, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2FBkJEVLio8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&ots=ETuWw_zhKN&sig=iYpYjs96f0JHD3weRYQm6OCYotw#v=onepage&q&f=false
• “From personal survival to public health: community leadership by men who have sex with men in the response to HIV,” https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0140673612608344/1-s2.0-S0140673612608344-main.pdf?_tid=0b3b2d86-b774-11e7-a8f5-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1508709649_7eb5bd8801b2033c9d545b3bf7ccf4d3
• Successes and challenges of HIV prevention in men who have sex with men” by Patrick S. Sullivan et al., https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0140673612609556/1-s2.0-S0140673612609556-main.pdf?_tid=249247ec-b774-11e7-9486-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1508709691_84e81f2ad0d5c8a4b285e76d6efdffb3
• “A Man Reaps What He Sows,” a chapter in How to Survive a Plague by David France, no online copy available
• “We Know Who We Are: Two Gay Men Declare War on Promiscuity” by Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, https://richardberkowitz.com/category/2-my-safe-sex-writing/
• Berkowitz’s “My Safe Sex Writing” page on his website, which contains published primary source responses to his article “We Know Who We Are,” ibid.

I'm a bit concerned that some of these are too narrow for Wikipedia science writing, because they're individual studies, although it is difficult to find an overarching consensus in the science/social science communities about the effect that this publication had on the LGBT community and the epidemic. Alinett (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Note on the article

I have twice now had to remove a well-intentioned but incorrect note stating, "This article contains hypotheses not currently accepted by the majority of the scientific community". In the first place, the note is unsupported by evidence. In the second place (much more importantly) the note fails to distinguish between the book the article is about and the article itself. As I already pointed out once, the first time I removed the note, "Even if the book contained ideas the scientific community doesn't accept, that does not mean that the article contains or promotes those ideas". The fact that a Wikipedia article discusses a book that puts forward ideas not accepted by the scientific community in no way makes it accurate to say that the article "contains hypotheses not currently accepted by the majority of the scientific community"; the book may, but the article about it does not. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC)