The Return Of Casual Sex
April, 1998
AS AIDS rages through Africa and Asia, infecting thousands of people each day, new HIV infections and AIDS deaths in the industrialized West have dropped dramatically. Indeed, years of education and, more recently, new cocktail drug treatments have made AIDS seem more distant, less threatening. This led us to wonder: Do men and women still heed the call to practice safe sex as religiously as they did five or ten years ago? Does foreplay still include caution and discretion?We asked journalist Lo...