Versatility and HIV vulnerability: Patterns of insertive and receptive anal sex in a national sample of Older Australian gay men

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1370-1377

  Lyons, Anthony ^a   Pitts, Marian ^a   Grierson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anal sex; Bottom; HIV; Men who have sex with men; Top; Versatile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84880723211     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-012-0332-9     Document Type: Article

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