RAW

How is the gay practice of barebacking understood and represented across media, theory, and policy?

Raw shows the urgent need to consider condomless sex, as it is illegal for HIV-positive people in many jurisdictions.Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean's seminal work Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, RAW returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. Writing out of the history of the AIDS crisis, the authors in RAW push Dean's conclusions, expanding the study of barebacking into new areas, such as its appearance within lesbian, heterosexual, and BDSM communities and its implications for teaching critical sexology.