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Autonomy and Rationality: The Building Blocks of a Love Match Autonomy and Rationality: The Building Blocks of a Love Match
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Autonomy: The Right to Say No to Sex Autonomy: The Right to Say No to Sex
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Sexual Pleasure Sexual Pleasure
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The Right to Say No The Right to Say No
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Rationality: Facts, Norms, & Skills Rationality: Facts, Norms, & Skills
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Facts Facts
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Attitudes & Norms Attitudes & Norms
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Life Skills Life Skills
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Idealized Gender: Modern Women and Modern Men Idealized Gender: Modern Women and Modern Men
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Modern Women Modern Women
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Modern Men Modern Men
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Rational Love: The Logic of the Prescriptive Ideal Rational Love: The Logic of the Prescriptive Ideal
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3 Love Matches: The Policy Prescription for “Good” Sex
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Published:August 2016
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Abstract
Offering a novel conceptual form of narrative, Love Matches. The Policy Prescription for “Good” Sex explicates the idealized blueprint for prevention conveyed in U.S. policy discourse. This rarely acknowledged prescriptive narrative provides the bridge from risk to prevention strategy—from HIV risk to an AIDS free world. It is also seen to exemplify healthy, natural and sanctioned sex. “Love matches” (sexual relationships between two opposite sex, autonomous, rational individuals) encapsulate the specific configuration of a modern relationship offered in the policy prescription. Love matches are understood to be protective against HIV because, in these modern relationships, women can say no to sex and men respect this refusal. This chapter also exposes the discursive roots of this idealization in core tenets of modernization theory, which helps to explain the tenacity of the individualized focus of prevention efforts.
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