When online becomes offline: Attitudes to safer sex practices in older and younger women using an Australian internet dating service

Sexual Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-159

  Bateson, Deborah J ^a   Weisberg, Edith ^a   McCaffery, Kirsten J ^b   Luscombe, Georgina M ^c  

^a FAMILY PLANNING NSW   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

condoms; sexually transmissible infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNSAFE SEX; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860015615     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH10164     Document Type: Article

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