The rise of Aids had a profound impact on the sex lives of many young people
‘Sex in the 90s’ was the cover tease for the Observer Magazine of 29 November 1987, when Suzanne Lowry’s short story synthesised some of the contemporary fears about Aids. It was ‘a fantasy about the meritocratic middle classes… a cautionary tale to show what could happen to them, caught between the old selfish libertarianism and the new hypocritical conformism’.
Reflecting that ‘the time between the introduction of the pill and the emergence of Aids was an interval of strange hubris, the only period of history in which people believed that sex was a wonderful “safe” recreation,’ Lowry foresaw a ‘growing return to a more “normal” perception of sex as being dangerous as well as ecstatic’.
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