title: Safe sex: does it exist?
abstract: Safe sex is alive and well. However, it is unsafe sex and the circumstances around it that clinicians need to identify. The difficulties in defining safe and unsafe sex will be described in an effort to highlight the great diversity and individuality that surrounds notions of safety and of sexual activity. It is emphasised that safe sex cannot be reduced to the use of a condom and that there are many complex personal, social, political, legislative and economic factors involved in an individual's decision to have safe sex and their ability to carry it out.
authors.affiliation: AIDS/STD Unit, Darwin.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Savage
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D014754:Violence