ABSTRACT
There are few sites more illustrative of the reconfiguring of the patient as client/consumer and the professional as purveyor of health service commodity, than the sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinic. This chapter is partly an account of the relationship between medicine and sexualities, but is primarily concerned with the consumption by male clients of increasingly commodified sexual health services. It will explore that transaction and draws on data from the ‘Eros Project’, a study of two sexual health clinics in the UK.
