Parker Richard
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Cad Saude Publica. 2009;25 Suppl 2:S251-8. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2009001400007.
The HIV epidemic has had a profound impact on how we think about, talk about, and carry out research on sexuality. The epidemic opened up a wide range of approaches and methodologies within sexuality research, helping to encourage more open public discussion and debate concerning sexuality, sexual values, and sexual norms. Sexuality became one of the key contested spaces of public discourse in a previously unimaginable way, and both conservative and progressive forces have entered the debate in ways that have had a lasting impact on sexual policies in the last two decades. The current article seeks to briefly evaluate some of these important changes. It suggests that recent advances have decelerated or become more timid, while emphasizing the continued importance of seeking to address sexuality as a central issue within the context of HIV and AIDS. Although such developments may have been unintended, the ways we respond to the epidemic can have a significant impact (for better or worse) on how issues related to sexuality and sexual health are addressed.
艾滋病病毒流行对我们思考、谈论和开展性取向研究的方式产生了深远影响。这一流行病在性取向研究领域开辟了广泛的方法和途径，有助于鼓励就性取向、性价值观和性规范展开更公开的公众讨论和辩论。性取向以前所未有的方式成为公共话语中关键的争议领域之一，保守势力和进步势力都以对过去二十年的性政策产生持久影响的方式参与了这场辩论。本文旨在简要评估其中一些重要变化。文章指出，近期的进展已经放缓或变得更加谨慎，同时强调在艾滋病毒和艾滋病背景下将性取向作为核心问题加以探讨的持续重要性。尽管这些发展可能并非本意，但我们应对这一流行病的方式可能（无论好坏）对性取向和性健康相关问题的处理方式产生重大影响。
