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Pictured is the locker room at St. Mark’s Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York. Historically, the social stigma of homosexuality has driven many gay men to limit their sexual expression to furtive, anonymous encounters in public places. In the 1970s, urban gay men—unaware of the emerging risk of HIV/AIDS—reinvented public sex environments (PSEs) as safe venues for casual sexual encounters with multiple partners.
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Pictured is the locker room at St. Mark’s Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York. Historically, the social stigma of homosexuality has driven many gay men to limit their sexual expression to furtive, anonymous encounters in public places. In the 1970s, urban gay men—unaware of the emerging risk of HIV/AIDS—reinvented public sex environments (PSEs) as safe venues for casual sexual encounters with multiple partners.