ABSTRACT
HIV/AIDS has generated many new terms in relation to sex and sexuality. Phrases such as ‘men who have sex with men’ and ‘male sex workers’ have entered into everyday usage, whereas older terms such as ‘homosexual’, ‘bisexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ continue to be used to describe sexual behaviours and identities. More often than not these descriptions are meaningless when used cross-culturally, and we should perhaps pay greater attention to sexual practices as they are understood in local cultural terminologies and contexts.
