
THE END OF INTIMACY
Author(s) -
STRONG THOMAS
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cultural anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.669
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1548-1360
pISSN - 0886-7356
DOI - 10.14506/ca36.3.05
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , human sexuality , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , covid-19 , allegory , sociology , gender studies , psychology , history , medicine , virology , psychotherapist , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , art history
Though comparisons between HIV and SARS‐CoV‐2 are of limited use, many people experience the epidemics simultaneously. For those of us living with HIV, every comment on COVID‐19 becomes a fretful allegory of HIV, and the ethical lessons that COVID‐19 teaches will inevitably be brought to bear on how we understand the meaning of the HIV epidemic, especially as it pertains to sexuality. This essay describes some of the ways gay men in Dublin, Ireland, reasoned about the ethics of sex during lockdown.