  At the end of the 1980s, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic peaked, sexual politics became increasingly conservative. Sex, once viewed as a political act that could blur the private/public divide and subvert traditional gender roles, became fraught with difficulty. Young feminists came of age at a time when sexual education shifted toward narratives of the risks of sex and not its disruptive political potential (Gargallo 2004: 123–124). Furthermore, the closing of the decade saw the continued linking between feminism and NGOs that would be characteristic of the institutionalization of feminism in the 1990s. For some, institutionalization entailed de-radicalization of feminist politics in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gargallo 2004: 125).