The adult film industry: Time to regulate?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 0993-0996

  Grudzen, Corita R ^a   Kerndt, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sexually Transmitted Disease Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDOM; COUNSELING; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ABUSE; FILM; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 34347253933     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040126     Document Type: Review

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