This book adds to AIDS literature a collection of 16 articles and studies on sexual risk and its cultural configurations. Chapters on the Philippines, Brazil, Haiti, and Africa explore the cultural, political, and economic contexts surrounding the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS in these cultures. The chapters on Western gay men speak to the pressing methodological, conceptual, and theoretical needs in HIV/AIDS research while providing an understanding and documentation of gay men's lives within the emerging body of lesbian and gay studies. Culture and Sexual Risk addresses many themes that have emerged over the last few years: the ethics of sex research, the role of Western anthropologists in developing nations, the role of heterosexuals in AIDS research, and the impact of AIDS on the discipline of anthropology.