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116 Revue sexologique / Sexological Review
Dirk Ainley didn't get fucked. [ ... ] Nonetheless his ass was never in the
air, so there wasn't any way he could have picked up the virus. For all the
shifting definitions of what constituted safe, one article of faith still held
in the bombed-out world they moved in: if you'd never been a bottom,
you were home free. (Monette, 1990, p. 100) ;
l'évaluation intuitive de la vie sexuelle des partenaires:
- Mais je t'assure, m'a-t-elle dit, on ne risque rien! Je suis saine! Tous
les types avec qui j'ai fait l'amour aussi... Rien que des copains! Aucun
ne se pique ... en tout cas, plus L.. Et ils ne sont pas homos, je le saurais, tu
penses ... (Chapsal, 1988, p. 159) ;
et la prise en considération des caractéristiques phénotypiques ou
morales qui indiquent le statut sérologique des partenaires:
Besides, 1 can just look at Billy, she told herself, and see that he's healthy.
He's strong. He's handsome. He's clean. He's so innocent and kind.
People like that don't get these awful diseases. (Johnson, 1987, p. 74)
Dans le troisième modèle, le sida entraîne une réévaluation de la
place de la sexualité et la définition d'une gestion sexuelle visant à
minimiser les risques. Certains renoncent à toute forme de relation
sexuelle, sublimant la pulsion érotique par un ensemble d'activités de
substitution:
The entire city is career-crazed, since it's too dangerous to fuck. They
work, cook, clean, garden, dress, and socialize with a vengeance. The
result is San Francisco without the hills. (Ferro, 1989, p. 71)
Cette continence forcée peut donner lieu à une activité
fantasmatique liée à la frustration:
One spring day 1 started thinking about dick aga in. Dick, dick, dick. It crept
into my dreams-me, who hadn't been able to wrap his hand around
even his own for months. Dick. 1 saw them, big ones, drooling in front of
my face. Shaving, 1 looked at my face in the mirror. Flushed from my
shover, it was pink, like a dick. (Preston, 1989, p. 35)
La zoophilie ou les poupées gonflables apparaissent aussi comme
des substituts possibles (Chapsal, 1988, p. 60-61). Chez ceux qui
décident de rester sexuellement actifs, le registre des conduites
sexuelles est réévalué en fonction des critères du safe-sex :
Fear of AIDS had not compelled him to limit his activities, only to reduce
their scope. He had as much sex as ever, but it was "safe sex," the rules
outlined clearly from the beginning: no kissing, no fluid exchange, no
collusion of mucus membrane areas. (Leavitt, 1988, p. 174)