Conclusion

Abstract

The index page of http://www.safesexpassport.com (SSP) asked users to contemplate the idea of the eradication of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. The website offered itself as the method to do so. By directly addressing the imagination of technosexual citizens in terms of its benefits, the website referred to the transcendent qualities of technological innovation in general (Mosco, 2004) and the ‘bio-technical embrace’ that informs medicine in particular (Delvecchio-Good, 2001). The SSP thus established social and commercial value by offering hope for the biotechnological rationalisation of sexual interaction in a way that will eradicate disease, at least for the individual consumer. The passport metaphor also invited images of technosexual travellers of an internetmediated world, circulating in ways free from disease and related concerns.