Underserved?

The theme for the society's four-day conference is "Unstudied, Understudied And Underserved Sexual Communities." Presentations range from autoerotic asphyxiation, or "breath play," to zoophiles, or animal lovers, to more mainstream topics like sex motives of dating partners.

"Let me tell you, it was not easy finding these pictures," Hunter College professor Jose E. Nanin told his audience in a seminar about "specialized" sexual behavior among gay men.

I'll bet. He probably had to go to a gay bookstore in New York, or San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or Chicago, or Amsterdam, or Stockholm, or Tokyo, or Bangkok. Or possibly even all the way to the Internet.

Nanin's photos are more than an explicit how-to of exhibitionism and sadomasochism, he says; they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatized in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS.

The Raggots of the world might have a different perspective on that. Spot and Rover, too.

Does "underserved" sound like a scientific research term, or advocacy?

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