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Author Archives: Thomas Lawrence Long
Sexual Minority Aging and Resilience
Aging is not for the feckless, as my mother used to complain before succumbing to its insults in 2012. The troubles of physical and mental decline come sometimes as single spies and also as whole battalions (to paraphrase Shakespeare). For … Continue reading
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The Lowdown on “Low T”
Perhaps because Big Pharma finds its erectile dysfunction medications going into generics, it has recently begun to tell men over 40 that their normal signs of aging are a pathology, the product of low testosterone. In its knack for catchy … Continue reading
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How Safe Is Oral Sex?
Readers of a certain age will recall having learned in the mid-1990s, thanks to U.S. President Bill “I Did Not Have Sex with That Woman” Clinton, that oral sex was not sex. Beyond semantic quibbling, this perception has been documented among … Continue reading
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Have You Had “The Talk” with Your Provider?
Over the past four decades as an out-of-the-closet adult, with now countless numbers of primary care health providers during those years, I can count on one hand the number of times that a health provider (usually a physician) has initiated … Continue reading
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Sexual Minorities and the Crisis of Legitimation in Medicine
More than thirty years on from the first appearance in print of what we in North America now name HIV/AIDS (or SIDA in other parts of the globe), a recent report of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies … Continue reading
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