"You can't do nothing in this damn place": Sex and intimacy among couples with an incarcerated male partner

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-12

  Comfort, Megan ^a,b   Grinstead, Olga ^a   McCartney, Kathleen ^a   Bourgois, Philippe ^a   Knight, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; INTIMACY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRISONER; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; COITUS; MIDDLE AGED; PRISON; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFE SEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RISK FACTORS; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 15544387368     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490509552251     Document Type: Article

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