![]() ![]() ![]() The consequences for the epidemic, Rotello sensibly concludes, are severe: Because human beings are fallible when it comes to safer sex, HIV will spread faster in a population that averages lots of partners than in a population that averages few. "People will have to accept the fact that the unlimited, unstructured pursuit of absolute sexual freedom," writes Rotello, "was biologically disastrous for gay men." Moreover, condoms aren't enough to reverse the disaster, because studies show many people don't use them consistently. In this sexual "ecosystem," writes Rotello, HIV "was just another bug along for the ride." Indeed, Hippler, who was my lover, died of AIDS in 1991. In his book Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men, Rotello retells the story of how 1970s gay culture allowed every sexually transmitted disease to spread with devastating efficiency. AIDS chronicler Randy Shilts dubbed Hippler "a gay Everyman," and Gabriel Rotello would almost surely agree. This passage was written in 1983 by gay newspaper columnist Mike Hippler.
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