The relationship among population size, requests for bareback sex, and HIV serostatus in men who have sex with men using the internet to meet sexual partners

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 349-360

  Blackwell, Christopher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Bareback sex; Condom; Gay; HIV; Homosexual; Internet; Men who have sex with men; WWW

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952380679     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10911350903343925     Document Type: Article

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