Conceptualizing safer sex in a new era: Risk perception and decision-making process among highly sexually active men who have sex with men.
Birger C ForsbergKristina Ingemarsdotter PerssonSarah ThomsenBirger C ForsbergHelle Mølsted AlvessonPublished in: PLOS global public health (2022)
HIV is integrated into the core of MSM's sexuality, independently of how they ontologically related to the idea of risk. A constant navigation between pleasure, risk and safety, alongside having to relate to risk created a complex process. Efforts were made to remove HIV from their lives by rejecting the idea of risk, and thereby reject the idea of the homosexual body being a possible vessel for a virus and an epidemic.