Latino Gay Men and HIV: Culture, Sexuality, and Risk Behavior
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0415913888
ISBN 13
9780415913881
Category
Non-Fiction
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
208
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Abstract
With research based on focus group and individual interviews in the United States, as well as a thorough and integrative review of the current literature, Latino Gay Men and HIV discusses the six main sociocultural factors in Latino communities -- machismo, homophobia, family cohesion, sexual silence, poverty and racism--which undermine safe sex practices. In an attempt to explain the alarmingly high incidence of unprotected intercourse in this population, this in-depth cultural and psychological analysis shows how an apparent incongruence between knowledge or intention and behavior can possess its own sociocultural logic and meaning.
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