Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of AIDS

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The work "Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of AIDS" by Masters and Johnson, co-authored with Robert C. Kolodny, was published in 1988. This book faced significant criticism and was widely discredited due to inaccuracies in its portrayal of HIV/AIDS transmission. Specifically, the authors claimed that HIV/AIDS could theoretically be contracted from contaminated objects, which generated unfounded fear and scientifically inaccurate perceptions of the disease.12

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Kolodny, Human Sexuality (1982), Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of AIDS (1988), and Heterosexuality (1994). Masters and Johnson were heavily criticized for Crisis, in which they claimed that HIV/AIDS could be contracted, in theory, from objects such as contaminated contact lenses, provoking irrational fear and scientifically inaccurate perceptions…
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Kolodny, Human Sexuality (1982), Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of AIDS (1988), and Heterosexuality (1994). Masters and Johnson were heavily criticized for Crisis, in which they claimed that HIV/AIDS could be contracted, in theory, from objects such as contaminated contact lenses, provoking irrational fear and scientifically inaccurate perceptions…
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