Confronting the 'sugar daddy' stereotype: Age and economic asymmetries and risky sexual behavior in urban Kenya

International Family Planning Perspectives

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-14

  Luke, Nancy ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDOM USE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONDOM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONDOMS; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; KISUMU [KISUMU (DST)]; KISUMU [NYANZA]; NYANZA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 20444443620     PISSN: 01903187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3100605     Document Type: Article

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