Australian mens sexual practices in saunas, sex clubs and other male sex on premises venues

Sexual Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-192

  Lyons, Anthony ^a   Smith, Anthony M A ^a   Grierson, Jeffrey W ^a   Von Doussa, Henry ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bathhouses; commercial sex environments; epidemiology; gay men; men who have sex with men; sexual encounters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MASSAGE; MASTURBATION; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; SAFE SEX; SAUNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; UNSAFE SEX; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATH; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATHS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953972742     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH09101     Document Type: Article

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