Online dating among Australian gay and bisexual men: romance or hooking up?
AIDS Behav
; 19(10): 1905-13, 2015 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-25777506
Increasingly, gay and bisexual men (GBM) meet casual sex partners online and this has been associated with sexual risk behavior. How do GBM meet regular partners? This online anonymous survey of 4215 GBM included 2562 men with a primary regular partner (PRP) who were included in these analyses. Mean age of the sample was 38.1 years. 60.3 % had met their PRP at least 2 years earlier. Meeting their PRP online increased from 14.0 % before 2001 to 79.9 % in 2013-2014. At all time points, men who met their PRP online were somewhat older than those who met their PRP offline. Regardless of how they met their PRP, most men met casual sex partners online. Among GBM, meeting sexual and romantic partners online has replaced other methods, for all age groups. The population of GBM who use the internet for this purpose is now equivalent to all sexually active GBM.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Bisexualidad
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Infecciones por VIH
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Homosexualidad Masculina
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Internet
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Relaciones Interpersonales
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
AIDS Behav
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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SINDROME DA IMUNODEFICIENCIA ADQUIRIDA (AIDS)
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Australia