title: "The string of this one story": erotica, HIV, and the construction of safe sex in gay male popular memory.
abstract: Recalibrating the critical consideration of popular memory, this essay rehabilitates the erotic narrative as an object of critical study and as a political practice via an examination of John Preston's (1985b) print collection, Hot Living: Erotic Stories About Safer Sex. It considers this collection as a use of the erotic genre to produce a popular memory within its reading community to support safer sex practices in the "Age of AIDS." It examines this collection as a communitarian project that articulates a new erotic rhetoric in response to HIV and considers its individual epistemological and epidemiological implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 550 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA. markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu
authors.forename: Mark John
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Isola
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004882:Erotica / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D021841:Safe Sex / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States