Reviews for Crystal meth and men who have sex with men

The average rating for Crystal meth and men who have sex with men based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-02-14 00:00:00 Gina Holub This is the most interesting book I've read about the AIDS problem. The author is a homosexual man and posits that changes in gay behavior starting in 1970 made the AIDS epidemic inevitable. He argues that condoms and pairing off by HIV status will have no effect on the epidemic. Only changes in behavior can do that. He is very specific in describing the behaviors that led to the problem and what needs to change. He also argues that AIDS will never become a major medical problem for heterosexuals in america and why. The first 100 pages are the most interesting, after that it seems like he is writing to anticipate arguments against his ideas, and he preempts them.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-24 00:00:00 Robert Tachna I can not overstate how homophobic this book really is. Despite being a gay man, Rotello argues that if gay men had assimilated to the sexual practices of heterosexual people, they would have never been victims of the AIDS crisis. He blames the victims, instead of looking at the structural inequalities that gay men faced from the end of World War II to the 1980s that put them in a vulnerable position for the HIV virus. Rotello also spends a lot of time shaming gay men for having sex the way they wanted to, which just comes across as rather spiteful. Rotello's work is a product of in-fighting in the gay community over the issue of respectability and assimilation to heterosexual society. His knowledge of the virus and how it spread is extremely dated. There are much more current works that address gay men and the AIDS epidemic that readers should go to for general information.