In a widely read rebuttal to "Sexual Ecology", AIDS activist Jim Eigo wrote that the book's "central argument" is that gay men should "...abandon current safer sex strategies (primary among them the condom code) and adopt serial monogamy as a communal norm." Comparing Rotello to right wingers such as Jesse Helms and Pat Buchanan, Eigo called the concept of holistic prevention "a quirky regurgitation of Judeo-Christian doctrine" and "breathtakingly simpleminded...Reading it all I kept wondering, in what way would a crabbed monogamy be more holistic than a loving, healthy promiscuity?"