Arousing suspicion and violating trust: The lived ideology of safe sex talk

Gavin, Jeff

doi:10.1080/136910500300750

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“…As the discourse concerning the dangers of youth sexual behaviour shifted from an exclusive focus on high-risk groups, young people increasingly received the message that risky sexual behaviour was relevant to everyone who engaged in sex-primarily because one could never be completely confident that a sexual partner was free of disease Risky groups, risky behaviour, and risky persons 51 (Gavin, 2000). For example, there was a proliferation of media and school-based information campaigns that attempted to convince sexually active young people (especially young women) to protect themselves by using condoms, even if their sexual partners resisted or refused.…”

Section: Behaving Badly-the Rhetoric Of Risky Sexual Behaviourmentioning

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Risky groups, risky behaviour, and risky persons: Dominating discourses on youth sexual health

Shoveller

Johnson

2006

Critical Public Health

114

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Significant public health attention has been focused on the problems of youth sexual behaviour. Empirical public health research in this area has attempted to account for mostly negative sexual health outcomes (e.g. sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies) by examining individual characteristics and risk-taking behaviour. Public health practice has followed suit, focusing primarily on modifying sexual risk behaviour and lifestyle 'choices'. In doing so, we may be unwittingly committed to an unarticulated and unrealistic set of assumptions about the level of agency and control that is afforded to many young people. The purpose of this paper is to begin to 'unpack' the underpinnings to conventional approaches to public health research and service provision related to youth sexual health in Canada. Drawing on the works of Foucault to show how discourses concerning risky groups, risky behaviour and risky persons have been advanced as sanctioned discourses in Canada (particularly related to HIV/AIDS risk), the authors investigate how themes of safety and goodness have been privileged as healthy, while other, unauthorized forms of youth sexual behaviour have been marginalized. The issue of teen parenthood is examined to demonstrate how these specific discourses have helped to relegate those youth who do not or cannot implant themselves in an 'approved reality' to live separately from the norm in a climate of sex-based shame. Drawing on their previous work and that of others, the authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding youth sexual health, one that favours critical, reflexive public health practices and attends to sociological theory.

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Section: Behaving Badly-the Rhetoric Of Risky Sexual Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risky groups, risky behaviour, and risky persons: Dominating discourses on youth sexual health

Shoveller

Johnson

2006

Critical Public Health

114

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“…Around 1990, 38% of adult Norwegians who reported having had gonorrhea or chlamydia claimed their permanent partners had infected them (National Institute of Public Health, 1993). To insist upon condom use in a permanent relationship may raise suspicion or unpleasant questions and may reduce the level of trust (Gavin, 2000).…”

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Extradyadic Sexual Relationships in Norway

Træen

Holmen

Stigum³

2006

Arch Sex Behav

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The purpose of this research was to study the occurrence of extradyadic sexual relationships among Norwegians. We examined what background factors were associated with this type of relationship, and to what extent condoms were used. In 2002, a random sample of 9,852 Norwegians between the ages of 18 and 49 were asked to participate in an anonymous self-administered questionnaire survey on sexual behavior. A total of 3387 persons responded (1386 men, 1993 women, and 8 who did not indicate their gender), yielding a response rate of 34%. Of the 2807 participants who had ever been married or cohabited, 29% of the men and 23% of the women reported experience with extradyadic sexual relationships at some point during their lives. Sixteen percent of the men and 11% of the women reported extradyadic sex during their current marriage/cohabiting relationship. Women were more emotionally attached to the extradyadic partner than men. Factors that predicted occurrence of extradyadic sexual relationships were age, number of years married/cohabiting, number of sex partners, and sexual orientation. In addition, there was a correlation between low self-esteem and extradyadic sexual experience. About 50% of the participants reported no use of contraception during the most recent intercourse with an extradyadic partner. In conclusion, men's extradyadic partner seems most often to be a casual partner, whereas women prefer someone they already know. The choice of extradyadic partner is most likely associated with use of STI protection.

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“…Elsewhere, I have explored the tensions that exist between young adults' understandings of 'of cial' safe sex advice and their common-sense understandings of these safe sex practices (Gavin, 2000). Speci cally, this research focused on the ways that young teen television audiences negotiate the clashes of meaning between media representations of safe sexual practices and their lived understandings of these practices.…”

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“…Analyses of content or received safe sex messages do not tell the full story. Such analyses fail to take into account that 'of cial' media facts often contradict the 'cultural' facts about AIDS and safe sex (Gavin, 2000). Negotiating these clashes of meaning requires a great deal of work on the part of the audience.…”

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Arousing suspicion and violating trust: The lived ideology of safe sex talk

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Risky groups, risky behaviour, and risky persons: Dominating discourses on youth sexual health

Risky groups, risky behaviour, and risky persons: Dominating discourses on youth sexual health

Extradyadic Sexual Relationships in Norway

Television Teen Drama and HIV/AIDS: the role of genre in audience understandings of safe sex

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