In an excerpt from her forthcoming book ‘Sluts’, Beth Ashley explores how the invention of PrEP birthed a new form of slutshaming in the queer community.
WORDS BY BETH ASHLEY HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN PrEP is one of the best inventions to ever grace this earth.
In fact, it’s so brilliant that I can’t believe we don’t have weekly parades celebrating its arrival. Yet somehow slut-shaming manages to sneak its way into discussions about it.
A revolution in the HIV and AIDS crisis, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved for use in the UK and the US in 2012, the EU in 2016 and Australia in 2018.