Setting the space for sex: Architecture, desire and health issues in gay bathhouses

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-284

  Holmes, Dave ^a   O'Byrne, Patrick ^a   Gastaldo, Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Architecture; Desire; Gay bathhouses; Post structuralism; Public health nursing; Queer studies

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BATH; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRIVE; FREEDOM; FURNITURE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SAFE SEX; SANITATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; BATHS; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DRIVE; EROTICA; FREEDOM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; INTERNET; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POSTMODERNISM; PRIVACY; PUBLIC FACILITIES; SAFE SEX; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33846212759     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2005.11.032     Document Type: Article

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