How Positive Are You? Open Dialog on Love, Sex, and Health

"How Positive Are You?" is a weekly podcast about surprising news and views about HIV and AIDS.   Episode 22, hosted by David Crowe and Celia Ferber, is a frank discussion of sex, sexuality, symbiosis, GAIA theory, fear, death, love, and health.  

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Don't miss this fascinating excursion into the correlated questions of our time, including:

• What conjunction of cultural and political forces has caused the misalignment of sex and health we have observed in the "AIDS Era"?  
• Why did allopathic interpretations of the crisis become dominant so early?  
• How have practices of love evolved since then?  
• What communities have continued to be 'sex-positive' and how have they intersected?  
• How have these practices co-evolved with a new notion of health?  With holistic practices of health?  
• With environmental notions of planetary health?  
• Why is the body and ecosystem and how can we practice love in respect of its balance and health? 
• How does the respect for our bodies' ecosystems align with the respect for Gaia,, or 'mother earth'?
• Why (and to what extent) is anal pleasure good for one's health?  
• How has the LGBT community grown and diversified in the AIDS Era?  
• What did bisexual people  bring to the sex positive movement?  
• What is it like to position oneself 'in between' gays and straights as one navigates the AIDS Era?  
• What new paradigms can emerge from this experience? 
• What new politics of love can help to realign sex with health?  
• What do we really mean by holistic sexual health?

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and the author of the new book GAIA and the New Politics of Love, a Silver Winner in Cosmology and New Science for the 2010 Nautilus Book Awards. 

For more information on these subjects, visit Serena at www.serenagaia.com and http://polyplanet.blogspot.com. She also recommends reading Our Daily Meds by Melody Petersen, Exploring Intimacy by Suzann Robins and Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.