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Profits first, love later: why western love stories need subverting

What alternative possibilities are opened up when dominant representations of love are questioned?

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Monogamous love is frequently used in global sexual health promotion efforts to try to inspire choices about ‘safe sexual practices.’ Yet there are two crucial and potentially harmful assumptions embedded here: first, that choice is something that every individual views as being available to them; and second, that love stories will always inspire.