We review the relationship between polygyny and HIV and identify a positive individual-level correlation, and a negative ecological correlation. We subsequently examine two mechanisms that contribute to the individual-level correlation. First, we find that men in polygynous marriages have more extramarital sex than men in monogamous unions (both in terms of self reports and in terms of spousal ...

The authors propose that information sources are best understood as constructed by individuals in an attempt to find answers to questions of immediate relevance. Contact profiles, or patterns of source use for particular information, determine what constitutes a source for an individual. The study explores how adolescents acquire and use health information. Data analyses based on a probability ...

In this volume-a second edition of an earlier work-sex is extensively covered. It is divided into four parts: sexuality in childhood, in the second decade, in the normal adult, and sexual pathology. This organizational scheme leads to some repetition, but in general the approach is sensible and matter-of-fact. As there is no formal instruction in problems of sex in most medical school curricula...

A survey of market women was conducted in Benin City. These women are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and STD infections since their trading activities involve long-distance travelling away from families and sexual exposure to strangers. The questionnaire included questions on socioeconomic background, sexual and health behaviour. Results indicate that there is a high level of sexual networking, especia...

Surveys reveal that the vast majority of people in the United States expect sexual monogamy in marriage and disapprove of extramarital involvement (EMI; Atwater, 1979; Buss & Shackelford, 1997; Singh, Walton, & Williams, 1976; Smith, 1994; Thornton, 1989; Treas & Giesen, 2000; Wiederman & Allgeier, 1996) with up to 97% of respondents stating that married persons should not engage in extramarita...

CONTEXT Gender inequality is a long-recognized driver of the HIV epidemic. However, few studies have investigated the association between gender-based power and HIV risk in India, which has the world's third largest HIV epidemic. METHODS Population-based data collected in 2003 from 3,385 couples residing in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, North India, were used to examine associations between ...

Talking about sexuality has never been easy in most Namibians cultures and it seems that most parents feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to talk openly with their children about sexuality. They do not participate in the sexuality education of their children, because they believe they are unable to provide quality and adequate sexuality information due to their lack of knowledge about human sexu...

introduction: despite the legal and moral sanctions against infidelity and reported negative attitudes, the ubiquity of infidelity in the our country is difficult to deny. due to the growing prevalence and negative effects of marital infidelity, understanding the complex relationships among selected individual and relationship variables that contribute to infidelity it is important and help pre...