Safe Sex Advocate
My blogs
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| Introduction | My name is Richard Berkowitz and I want to explain what you will see here. In May 1983, along with Dr. Joseph Sonnabend and the late author and musician Michael Callen, I co-authored the first safe sex manifesto, HOW TO HAVE SEX IN AN EPIDEMIC: One Approach. Our 40 page self-published booklet is widely regarded as the invention of safe sex as we know it today. I wrote about how the three of us came together to invent safe sex for AIDS in my 2003 book, STAYIN’ ALIVE: THE INVENTION OF SAFE SEX, A Personal History. Recently, my book inspired a new documentary by filmmaker Daryl Wein, called SEX POSITIVE. The film has been very well received in the press and at many film festivals around the world. Last June, it premiered in several cities around the country. Thousands of people have seen SEX POSITIVE, but when the film moves to cable TV in the upcoming fall of 2009, tens of thousands of people will have the opportunity to see it. It’s an important film that raises more questions than it can answer. That’s why I’m using the internet: to address questions people often have. This blog begins that effort. |