The secret: Love, marriage, and HIV

摘要

The titillating title 'The secret' perfectly describes what occurs in myriad households the world over: the deliberate denial that male extramarital infidelity is happening and thus potentially exposing faithful wives to the dreaded HIV. Women, too, deny their own husbands' indiscretions, even while acknowledging that the practice is widespread. Though on the surface, this smacks of the teenage illusion of personal invincibility, The secret deftly paints a more complex picture of the competing factors that compel women to choose to be complicit in their husbands' secrets.