Abstract
SUMMARY This article describes the inability of the traditional “take one more step towards safety” and “use a condom every time” safer sex messages to provide accurate, useful, and realistic information for women who have sex with women. A new model of safer sex education for lesbians and bisexual women is proposed which promotes a healthy sexuality by reducing fear of HIV and STDs, and comparing the possibility of disease transmission with other everyday risks. The eight studies to date showing the extremely low risk of woman-to-woman HIV transmission are explained by reviewing current scientific knowledge about how HIV behaves, and discussing which woman-to-woman sex acts might carry some risk. Techniques to bridge the pro-latex/anti-latex communication gap are described. This paper was originally presented at the national conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Francisco in November, 1995 under the title “Safer Sex Education for Lesbians and Bisexual Women: A New Model.”
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