Stigmatizing surveillance: blood-borne pathogen protocol and the dangerous doctor

Constructing a crisis: porn panics and public health

“…This included interventions such as mandatory testing, reporting, and quarantine, as well as the closure of community sexual spaces such as bathhouses (Herek 1999;Disman 2003). It continues today in the form of mandatory testing and reporting (Webber, Bartlett, and Brunger 2016), blood bans for men who have sex with men (Cascio and Yomtovian 2013; Arora 2017; Crath and Rangel 2017), and the criminalization of non-disclosure of one's HIV status to sexual partners (Mykhalovskiy 2011;O'Byrne, Bryan, and Woodyatt 2013). HIV is an interesting comparative case study to the current porn panic because it demonstrates how interventions ostensibly intended to protect the health of the 'public' deliberately privilege specific forms of sexual and relational practice.…”