2 Unlike medical and public health campaigns that advocated abstinence or monogamy, this video promoted new forms of 'healthy' sex that focused on pleasurable alternatives to high-risk practices. Does anyone remember sex?' 1 In a climate of fear and sex negativity, Chance of a Lifetime represented part of a larger trend among AIDS educators that involved focusing energy on helping gay men learn to eroticize a new set of risk reduction practices that would come to be known as safer sex. Lately more and more people seem to think that sex is too scary. As the title screen explained, 'This program is designed to be an entertaining, erotic, explicit educational tool for AIDS prevention using real people in real situations.' Conceived and produced by the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), one of the earliest leading community-based AIDS organizations in the United States, this video sought to address what its introductory voiceover described as 'a health crisis that leaves many people feeling powerless and afraid. On October 19, 1985, over 200 gay men gathered in the High School for the Humanities auditorium in New York City for a screening of a sixty-minute erotic video called Chance of a Lifetime.
