Turner presents a well-designed study... of sexual behaviors of HIV negative gay men...between the ages of 30 and 44, living in West Hollywood... in the early 1990s... He found that the men practiced safer sex almost all the time, but also on occasion had unprotected anal sex. Turner relates his findings to the probable evolutionary origins of basic human urges, and describes probable interactions between these urges and the cultures that coevolved along with human biology... Although methodologically and theoretically sophisticated, the book is also as lucid and well written as a good novel. Choice
