Traditionalist voices like these used the atmosphere of fear caused by HIV/AIDS to campaign against any way of living beyond a traditional family model. There are two things going on here: first, an incorrect assumption that a “family” only constitutes a man and a woman and their own conceived children; and second, that the sex that takes place outside of this model, especially bum fun between two men, is therefore destructive, harmful and dangerous. Throw in HIV and their sex also becomes fatal. These twin fears of sex and death pre-dated HIV/AIDS, but they are left darker by that crisis.
