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The third-world face of HIV/AIDS
Published in Théodore H MacDonald, Health, Trade and Human Rights, 2018
In 1994, Civic and Wilson found that when couples practise dry sex with a condom, there is a very good chance of the condom breaking, thus exposing the couple to a high risk of contracting HIV. Results of the same study suggest that, although individuals may accept handouts of condoms and initiate condom use, they may not use them effectively.
HIV Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics
Published in James Chin, Jeffrey Koplan, The AIDS Pandemic, 2018
In many parts of SSA24 and some areas of Southeast Asia, some women apply astringent substances into their vaginas to limit their vaginal secretions. Such “dry sex” can be much more traumatic and cause lesions in the vagina that can lead to an increase in HIV transmission rates. Paradoxically, nonoxynol-9, touted as a vaginal spermicidal lubricant that might also prevent HIV infection, turned out to be abrasive to the vaginal epithelium when used frequently and may have facilitated rather than prevented HIV infection.25
Associations Among Coping Style, Personality, Unsafe Sexual Behavior, Depression, Conflict over Sexual Orientation, and Gender Nonconformity
Published in Michael W. Ross, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality, 2012
James D. Weinrich, J. Hampton Atkinson, Thomas L. Patterson, J. Allen McCutchan, John C. Gonsiorek, Igor Grant
It would have been enormously helpful, at the onset of the AIDS epidemic, to have had available the results of decades of well-supported sex research, just as it was of inestimable value to have previously funded an extremely competent biomedical research establishment. When AIDS burst upon the scene, we already had retrovirologists “ready” to identify HIV as a retrovirus. But when it became clear that AIDS was often passed on by sexual behaviors, we had no sexologists specializing in understanding anal sex, or “dry sex” among IV drug users, or the sexual habits of people with hemophilia. Although a few pioneers had begun to investigate such questions in the gay community (Carrier, 1976, 1977; Ross, 1986), their work was not accorded sufficient notice early in the epidemic when it would have been of great benefit. Accordingly, we have been crippled in the fight against AIDS on the behavioral front, and doubtless many have died as a result of our society’s reluctance to fund studies to dispel our ignorance of sexual matters.
Lubricants for the promotion of sexual health and well-being: a systematic review
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Caitlin E. Kennedy, Ping Teresa Yeh, Jingjia Li, Lianne Gonsalves, Manjulaa Narasimhan
Reasons why individuals disliked lubricants or would choose not to use them also ranged widely, and included that lubricants were perceived as sticky, slippery, wet, messy, runny, gooey, burning, itchy, or leaky (nuisance); that lubricants were expensive, unavailable, or inaccessible; that individuals were not prepared when “in the heat of the moment” to quickly try using it, or that lubricant use interrupted sexual interaction; that individuals or their partners preferred dry sex or preferred to use non-commercial products (e.g. saliva, pre-seminal fluid) instead; or that participants perceived that lubricants were “only for older people”, or that they did not think they needed to use lubricant.
The Gender Gap in Orgasms: Survey Data from a Mid-Sized Canadian City
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2019
The Survey of Sexual Behaviour asks a series of yes or no questions related to what sexual activities occurred during the participant's most recent sexual encounter. These include vaginal sex, anal sex, rubbing genitals/dry sex, and giving and receiving oral sex. The response we use for our analysis asks whether the respondent received oral sex: “My partner gave me oral sex.”