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Summary: Insiteful, Informative. Love it!
Review: I found this book to very informative and insightful. However I thought that some of the dialougue was hokey. This tells you pretty much everything you probably already know, but there are a few extras that I didnt know and it helps. There are alot of different siuations covered from intimacy, different types of contraceptives to loosing your lover to AIDS.
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Summary: Partially interesting
Review: This is effectively the manifesto of Gay Men Fighting AIDS, a London-based group consisting of gay men, umm, fighting HIV/Aids in the gay community.You'll notice that the word 'gay' appears a lot in the first paragraph, well that's like the book. So, although much of the material in the book is relevant to any one interested in men who have sex with men, whether they identify as gay, bisexual, straight (yep!) or have no sexual idenity as such, Edward King really isn't interested in anything other than the gay identified ones. So, one section quotes extensively from a paper in "Risks Worth Taking", the report of a 1991 conference. The paper talks about how the Terrence Higgins Trust (the leading UK HIV organisation) came about and King praises it as an example of a community based group. Just about the only bits he doesn't quote are the lines along the lines of 'because virtually all the THT's founders were white gay men, we didn't do enough for bisexuals or black/Asian men'. Curiously the beloved GMFA has made exactly the same mistake. Sections of the book are excellent -- especially the one on the risks of oral sex -- but overall it's a Curate's Egg as parts of it stink.
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