“All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.”

— Richard Summerbell

Body Politic, June 1983, reported in Ann Silversides, AIDS activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community (2003), p. 32.

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