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Navigating unintelligibility: queer Australian young women’s negotiations of safe sex and risk

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posted on 2023-05-19, 13:34 authored by Ruby Grant, Meredith NashMeredith Nash
Australian public health promotion positions safe sex as a biomedical, heteronormative concept. Consequently, there is a dearth of scholarly research examining queer young women’s sexual health. To fill this knowledge gap, this article considers how Australian bisexual and queer young women understand ‘safe sex’ and conceptualise ‘good’ sexual citizenship. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 participants in Tasmania, findings reveal that although queer women understand heterosexual safe sex, there is little awareness of safer sexual practices with female partners. We argue that gendered sexual scripts shape perceptions of sexual health risk whereby queer women adopt multiple situation-dependent approaches to safer sex.

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Publication title

Journal of Health Psychology

Volume

23

Pagination

306-319

ISSN

1359-1053

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Place of publication

London

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Copyright 2017 The Authors

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Women's and maternal health

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