In Simon Watney's article, "The Spectacle of AIDS", Watney illustrates that the AIDS epidemic has become just that; a spectacle. Watney first places the blame for this confusion on the strategic constant misreporting of facts and figures relating to this epidemic. He then goes on to discuss how certain demographics are stigmatized as high risk groups.
[...] Watney, Simon spectacle of AIDS” Lesbian and gay studies reader. New York: Routledge In Simon Watney's article, Spectacle of Watney illustrates that the AIDS epidemic has become just that; a spectacle. Watney first places the blame for this confusion on the strategic constant misreporting of facts and figures relating to this epidemic. He then goes on to discuss how certain demographics are stigmatized as high risk groups. By isolating gay men, sex industry workers, and IV drug users, pre-modern views of the body are created in which sin and promiscuity and sin are fit to be punished by disease. [...]
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