Constructing the neoliberal sexual actor: Responsibility and care of the self in the discourse of barebackers

摘要: This paper analyses on the discourses employed by a subset of gay and bisexual men who no longer practise protected sex more than twenty years into HIV epidemic. In‐depth interviews with 102 in Toronto are used to examine moral reasoning those for whom language barebacking provides shared set accounts tacit understandings unprotected sex. Barebacking raises some central issues contemporary theory around risk, responsibility, ethics, poses new challenges prevention policy as adapt major tenets neoliberal ideology combining notions informed consent, contractual interaction, free market choice, responsibility ways. At same time, barebackers reveal competing contradictory that suggest avenues engagement initiatives.