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Sida et sexualité dans la fiction romanesque
Blum had developed an incentive for protecting himself. "1 always
consider myse/f negative for the virus," he'd say. "And everybody else
positive. That gives me lots of reason to protect myself-I don't have to
ever get AIDS." [...] He knew how to make love and play sexually without
letting any semen into his body. He'd become a great frotteur, an
aficionado of innocent sex, boyish sex-when aIl that mattered was
feeling another body against yours, without any need to penetrate or
perform. Oohnson, 1987, p. 100-101)
Hajo took more and more precautions when they made love. When
Mark compared their love-ma king with his own heavy sex scenes of the
1970s (losing consciousness in leather harness, the smell of poppers, his
legs coated in grease) he had to admit how ta me a porno movie of Hajo
and him would look. (White, 1988, p. 218-219)
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La gestion du désir passe alors par un état d'esprit de constant qui­
vive nécessitant des révisions importantes du style de vie.
L'utilisation des excitants chimiques ou de l'alcool, qui ont pour
fonction de réduire les inhibitions ou d'amplifier les états de
conscience érotiques, est découragée, car ces substances interfèrent
avec la vigilance nécessaire à la mise en place des pratiques
sécuritaires:
Now they say you should never drink or take drugs if you have sex
because it breaks down your inhibitions and you find yourself "going aIl
the way," getting come down your throat or up your ass and then you're
paralyzed with fear the next morning. (Indiana, 1989, p. 88)
La peur du sida modifie aussi la hiérarchie des activités sexuelles et
le plaisir qui leur est attaché, ce qui nécessite une recodification
érotique problématique, dans la mesure où la spontanéité de
l'expression érotique est entravée:
l'm afraid to even touch it this soon because 1 might smear sore precum
accidentally on his nipples and suck them afterward. 1 feel confined, a
million invisible strands of thread forming a skein of restriction.
(Feinberg, 1989, p. 318-319)
They spawled on the sofa, and Neil gave Bernard one of his trademark
kisses, an amorous stubbled plosive full on the ear. In a world where
bodies had unrestricted access to each other, this would come near the
bottom of Bernard's list of favourite gestures. He braced himself for the
detonation. In essence, he thought it was about as erotic a gesture as
dropping a firework through someone's letter-box. But he could not now
afford to despise any permissible act, and he had worked on his reactions