Sexual Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Because he has bought for her, he wants to sleep with her": alcohol as a currency for sexual exchange in South African drinking venues. 
  • "Being faithful" in a sexual relationship: perceptions of Tanzanian adolescents in the context of HIV and pregnancy prevention. 
  • "Nothing Is Free": A Qualitative Study of Sex Trading Among Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • 'A shot of his own': the acceptability of a male hormonal contraceptive in Indonesia. 
  • A church-based intervention for families to promote mental health and prevent HIV among adolescents in rural Kenya: Results of a randomized trial. 
  • A distinctive clade B HIV type 1 is heterosexually transmitted in Trinidad and Tobago. 
  • A kiss is not a kiss: visually evoked neuromagnetic fields reveal differential sensitivities to brief presentations of kissing couples. 
  • A neuroscience perspective on sexual risk behavior in adolescence and emerging adulthood. 
  • A parallel process growth mixture model of conduct problems and substance use with risky sexual behavior. 
  • A patient's guide to safer sex. Reducing the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. 
  • A pilot study of a structured interview addressing sexual function in men with schizophrenia. 
  • A qualitative analysis of partner selection, HIV serostatus disclosure, and sexual behaviors among HIV-positive urban men. 
  • AIDS-related stigma, HIV testing, and transmission risk among patrons of informal drinking places in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Accuracy of 30-day recall for components of sexual function and the moderating effects of gender and mood. 
  • Adapting a couple-based intimacy enhancement intervention to breast cancer: A developmental study. 
  • Adolescents engaging in unhealthy weight control behaviors: are they at risk for other health-compromising behaviors? 
  • Adult physical health outcomes of adolescent girls with conduct disorder, depression, and anxiety. 
  • Air embolism during pregnancy. 
  • Assessment of vulvar discomfort with sexual activity among women in the United States. 
  • Association between Increased Emergency Contraception Availability and Risky Sexual Practices. 
  • Association of MDMA/ecstasy and other substance use with self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among college-aged adults: a national study. 
  • Associations Between Fathers' and Sons' Sexual Risk in Rural Kenya: The Potential for Intergenerational Transmission. 
  • Associations between patterns of emerging sexual behavior and young adult reproductive health. 
  • Battering victimization among a probability-based sample of men who have sex with men. 
  • Beyond age at first sex: patterns of emerging sexual behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. 
  • Bonobo but not chimpanzee infants use socio-sexual contact with peers. 
  • Changes in HIV risk behavior and seroincidence among clients presenting for repeat HIV counseling and testing in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Changes in sexual behavior of HIV-infected older adults enrolled in a clinical trial of standalone group psychotherapies targeting depression. 
  • Childhood abuse and initial presentation for HIV care: an opportunity for early intervention. 
  • Childhood behavior problems linked to sexual risk taking in young adulthood: a birth cohort study. 
  • Chronic avoidance helps explain the relationship between severity of childhood sexual abuse and psychological distress in adulthood. 
  • Coital risk factors for cervical cancer. Sexual activity among white middle class women. 
  • Community-wide job loss and teenage fertility: evidence from North Carolina. 
  • Comparing patterns of sexual risk among adolescent and young women in a mixed-method study in Tanzania: implications for adolescent participation in HIV prevention trials. 
  • Conceptual framework for patient-important treatment outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Construct validity of the PROMIS® sexual function and satisfaction measures in patients with cancer. 
  • Continued high risk sexual behavior following diagnosis with acute HIV infection in South Africa and Malawi: implications for prevention. 
  • Coping with sexual concerns after cancer: the use of flexible coping. 
  • Correlates of sexual risk among sexual minority and heterosexual South African youths. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of free HIV voluntary counseling and testing through a community-based AIDS service organization in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Delayed diagnosis of iliac vein thrombus in a sexually-active adolescent with Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome. 
  • Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States. 
  • Depressive symptoms, substance use, and HIV-related high-risk behaviors among opioid-dependent individuals: results from the Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Development and Initial Validation of the PROMIS(®) Sexual Function and Satisfaction Measures Version 2.0. 
  • Development and evaluation of an HIV-risk reduction program for female college students. 
  • Development of a measure of college students' adherence to religious doctrine concerning sexual behavior. 
  • Differences between completers and early dropouts from 2 HIV intervention trials: a health belief approach to understanding prevention program attrition. 
  • Differences in history of sexual behavior between patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and patients with squamous cell carcinoma at other head and neck sites. 
  • Differential patterns of amygdala and ventral striatum activation predict gender-specific changes in sexual risk behavior. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Do testosterone declines during the transition to marriage and fatherhood relate to men's sexual behavior? Evidence from the Philippines. 
  • Does military sexual trauma moderate the impact of critical warzone experiences? 
  • Does sexual function change after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse? A multicenter prospective study. 
  • Dual contraceptive method use for pregnancy and disease prevention among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women: the importance of an event-level focus for promoting safer sexual behaviors. 
  • Dynamic assessment of quality of life after autologous bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Effect of Calorie Restriction on Mood, Quality of Life, Sleep, and Sexual Function in Healthy Nonobese Adults: The CALERIE 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on the sex steroids and quality of life in obese men. 
  • Effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions in developing countries. 
  • Effects of a coping intervention on transmission risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS and a history of childhood sexual abuse. 
  • Emotional adjustment in survivors of sexual assault living with HIV-AIDS. 
  • Erectile dysfunction in early, middle, and late adulthood: symptom patterns and psychosocial correlates. 
  • Exposure to and experiences of violence among adolescents in lower socio-economic groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
  • Factors associated with change in sexual transmission risk behavior over 3 years among HIV-infected patients in Tanzania. 
  • Factors predicting continued high-risk behavior among gay men in small cities: psychological, behavioral, and demographic characteristics related to unsafe sex. 
  • Factors predicting early and late phase decline of sexual health-related quality of life following radical prostatectomy. 
  • Fertility and infertility in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Gender differences in the processes of change for condom use: patterns across stages of change in crack cocaine users. 
  • Gender differences in the risk of HIV infection among persons reporting abstinence, monogamy, and multiple sexual partners in northern Tanzania. 
  • Gender roles and sexual behavior among young women. 
  • Gender, race, and obesity-related quality of life at extreme levels of obesity. 
  • Gender-based violence and HIV sexual risk behavior: alcohol use and mental health problems as mediators among women in drinking venues, Cape Town. 
  • Genetic and environmental influences on age at sexual initiation in the Colorado Adoption Project. 
  • HIV Risk Behavior Among Methamphetamine Users Entering Substance Abuse Treatment in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • HIV antibody testing of gay men in smaller US cities. 
  • HIV heterosexual transmission: a hypothesis about an additional potential determinant. 
  • HIV risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness: a systematic review. 
  • HIV risk behavior among ethnically diverse adolescents living in low-income housing developments. 
  • HIV risk behavior in treatment-seeking opioid-dependent youth: results from a NIDA clinical trials network multisite study. 
  • HIV risk behaviors among women living in low-income, inner-city housing developments. 
  • HIV testing and sexual risk reduction counseling in office-based buprenorphine/naloxone treatment. 
  • HIV-1-negative female sex workers sustain high cervical IFNɛ, low immune activation, and low expression of HIV-1-required host genes. 
  • HIV/AIDS-related institutional mistrust among multiethnic men who have sex with men: effects on HIV testing and risk behaviors. 
  • HPTN 062: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Exploring the Effect of a Motivational-Interviewing Intervention on Sexual Behavior among Individuals with Acute HIV Infection in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • HPTN 062: a feasibility and acceptability pilot intervention to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors among individuals with acute and early HIV infection in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Has the HIV epidemic in rural Mwanza, Tanzania reached a plateau? 
  • Heterosexual Anal Sex Among Men and Women in Substance Abuse Treatment: Secondary Analysis of Two Gender-Specific HIV-Prevention Trials. 
  • High Multiplicity Infection by HIV-1 in Men Who Have Sex with Men. 
  • High risk sexual behavior and alcohol consumption among bar-going gay men. 
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA. 
  • Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey. 
  • If you build it will they come? Addressing social isolation within a technology-based HIV intervention for young black men who have sex with men. 
  • Impact of loop electrosurgical excision procedure for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia on HIV-1 genital shedding: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Improvements in sexual quality of life after moderate weight loss. 
  • Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study. 
  • Increased incidence of cervical and vaginal dysplasia in 3,980 diethylstilbestrol-exposed young women. Experience of the National Collaborative Diethylstilbestrol Adenosis Project. 
  • Individual and family predictors of the perpetration of dating violence and victimization in late adolescence. 
  • Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya. 
  • Ineffective use of condoms among young women in managed care. 
  • Initial report of the cancer Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) sexual function committee: review of sexual function measures and domains used in oncology. 
  • Interdependent effects of cohesion and concurrency for epidemic potential. 
  • Intrauterine devices for adolescents: a systematic review. 
  • Is risky sexual behavior continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysis of the Sexual Risk Survey. 
  • Knowledge about human papillomavirus among adolescents. 
  • Knowledge of termination of pregnancy (TOP) legislation and attitudes toward TOP clinical training among medical students attending two South African universities. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and use of emergency contraception among rural western North Carolina women. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Lessons learned about behavioral science and acute/early HIV infection. The NIMH Multisite Acute HIV Infection Study: V. 
  • Levels and predictors of HIV risk behavior among women in low-income public housing developments. 
  • Long-term correlates of childhood abuse among adults with severe mental illness: adult victimization, substance abuse, and HIV sexual risk behavior. 
  • Longitudinal effects of coping on outcome in a randomized controlled trial of a group intervention for HIV-positive adults with AIDS-related bereavement. 
  • Lymphocyte immunoregulatory cells present in semen from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals: a report from the HIV Heterosexual Transmission Study. 
  • Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample. 
  • Maternal navigational strategies: examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color. 
  • Medrogestone: a prospective study in the pharmaceutical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia. 
  • Men who report recent male and female sex partners in Cape Town, South Africa: an understudied and underserved population. 
  • Men's Behavior Predicts Women's Risks for HIV/AIDS: Multilevel Analysis of Alcohol-Serving Venues in South Africa. 
  • Mental health and HIV sexual risk behavior among patrons of alcohol serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Mental health treatment to reduce HIV transmission risk behavior: a positive prevention model. 
  • Motivational factors in nonincarcerated sexually aggressive men. 
  • Motives and psychodynamics of self-reported, unincarcerated rapists. 
  • Multiple partners, risky partners and HIV risk among low-income urban women. 
  • No sex for science? Formative research on the acceptability and feasibility of a true contraceptive efficacy clinical trial. 
  • Nonurban male homosexuals: epidemiologic, immunologic and virologic characteristics. 
  • Nurses on the Front Lines: Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Health Care Settings. 
  • Obstetrician-gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya. 
  • Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments. 
  • Outcomes of a randomized, controlled community-level HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in low-income housing developments. 
  • Outcomes of early pubertal timing in young women: a prospective population-based study. 
  • Patient-provider communication about sexual concerns in cancer: a systematic review. 
  • Patterns and correlates of sexual activity and condom use behavior in persons 50-plus years of age living with HIV/AIDS. 
  • Perceived sexual control, sex-related alcohol expectancies and behavior predict substance-related sexual revictimization. 
  • Perioperative Behavioral Therapy and Pelvic Muscle Strengthening Do Not Enhance Quality of Life After Pelvic Surgery: Secondary Report of a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Personality differences predict health-risk behaviors in young adulthood: evidence from a longitudinal study. 
  • Physically, mentally disabled teens require special contraceptive care. 
  • Potentially traumatic experiences and sexual health among orphaned and separated adolescents in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Predictors of high and low levels of HIV risk behavior among adults with chronic mental illness. 
  • Preexposure prophylaxis for HIV infection among African women. 
  • Preparing for the Rollout of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Vignette Survey to Identify Intended Sexual Behaviors among Women in Kenya and South Africa if Using PrEP. 
  • Prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C in people with severe mental illness. 
  • Prevalence of HTLV-I-associated T-cell lymphoma. 
  • Preventing the heterosexual spread of AIDS. 
  • Problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Prophylaxis after sexual exposure to HIV. 
  • Psychiatric and psychosocial correlates of sexual risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness. 
  • Psychiatric context of acute/early HIV infection. The NIMH Multisite Acute HIV Infection Study: IV. 
  • Psychiatric disorders and risky sexual behaviour in young adulthood: cross sectional study in birth cohort. 
  • Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the female sexual distress scale-revised in women. 
  • Psychosocial differences between recently HIV tested and non-tested gay men who reside in smaller US cities. 
  • Quality of Life and Sexual Function 2 Years After Vaginal Surgery for Prolapse. 
  • Quality of life after bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Quality of life following localized prostate cancer treated initially with androgen deprivation therapy or no therapy. 
  • Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities. Community HIV Prevention Research Collaborative. 
  • Reductions in alcohol and cocaine use following a group coping intervention for HIV-positive adults with childhood sexual abuse histories. 
  • Relationship between trauma and high-risk behavior among HIV-positive men who do not have sex with men (MDSM). 
  • Relationship type, condom use and HIV/AIDS risks among men who have sex with men in six Chinese cities. 
  • Religious authority in the modern world 
  • Results of the NIMH collaborative HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial of a community popular opinion leader intervention. 
  • Risk of substance abuse and dependence among young adult sexual minority groups using a multidimensional measure of sexual orientation. 
  • Risk of unwanted sex for college women: evidence for a red zone. 
  • Selective versus unselective romantic desire: not all reciprocity is created equal. 
  • Self-Efficacy for Sexual Risk Reduction and Partner HIV Status as Correlates of Sexual Risk Behavior Among HIV-Positive Adolescent Girls and Women. 
  • Service delivery characteristics associated with contraceptive use among youth clients in integrated voluntary counseling and HIV testing clinics in Kenya. 
  • Sex, drugs, and race: how behaviors differentially contribute to the sexually transmitted infection risk network structure. 
  • Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors. 
  • Sexual Mixing in Shanghai: Are Heterosexual Contact Patterns Compatible With an HIV/AIDS Epidemic? 
  • Sexual activity and functioning in female scleroderma patients. 
  • Sexual activity and vaginal topography in women with symptomatic pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Sexual anomie in prerevolutionary France. 
  • Sexual bother and function after radical prostatectomy: predictors of sexual bother recovery in men despite persistent post-operative sexual dysfunction. 
  • Sexual desire in post-menopausal women. 
  • Sexual function after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse: a multicenter prospective study. 
  • Sexual function after vaginal versus nonvaginal prolapse surgery. 
  • Sexual function and satisfaction among heterosexual and sexual minority U.S. adults: A cross-sectional survey. 
  • Sexual functioning along the cancer continuum: focus group results from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®). 
  • Sexual functioning in obese adults enrolling in a weight loss study. 
  • Sexual functioning of men and women with severe obesity before bariatric surgery. 
  • Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns. 
  • Sexual health. Medical training must acknowledge sexuality. 
  • Sexual knowledge and experience among young men with spina bifida. 
  • Sexual orientation differences in HIV testing motivation among college men. 
  • Sexual revictimization among Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans. 
  • Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women. 
  • Sexuality and the older bypass patient. 
  • Sexuality in middle and late life. The effects of age, cohort, and gender. 
  • Slowing the spread of HIV: agenda for the 1990s. 
  • Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of clients presenting for HIV voluntary counselling and testing in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Socioeconomic characteristics of patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma according to tumor HPV status, patient smoking status, and sexual behavior. 
  • Some implications of a pregnancy on campus: a research study. 
  • Squamous cell neoplasia controversy in the female exposed to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Substance use and HIV infection awareness among HIV-infected female sex workers in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Syringe exchanges: a public health response to problem drug use. 
  • TRPC2: molecular biology and functional importance. 
  • The Cognitive Escape Scale: measuring HIV-related thought avoidance. 
  • The Feasibility and Acceptability of Using Technology-Based Daily Diaries with HIV-Infected Young Men Who have Sex with Men: A Comparison of Internet and Voice Modalities. 
  • The Relationship Between Multiple Sex Partners and Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Dependence Disorders: A Cohort Study 
  • The Relationship between Pain, Disability, and Sex in African Americans. 
  • The association between sequences of sexual initiation and the likelihood of teenage pregnancy. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The association of exercise with both erectile and sexual function in black and white men. 
  • The cervical cap: effectiveness, safety, and acceptability as a barrier contraceptive. 
  • The development and psychometric properties of the HIV and Abuse Related Shame Inventory (HARSI). 
  • The effect of age on weight-related quality of life in overweight and obese individuals. 
  • The effects of early sexual abuse on adult risky sexual behaviors among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • The impact of docetaxel, estramustine, and low dose hydrocortisone on the quality of life of men with hormone refractory prostate cancer and their partners: a feasibility study. 
  • The impact of stress urinary incontinence on sexual activity in women. 
  • The influence of early sexual debut and sexual violence on adolescent pregnancy: a matched case-control study in Jamaica. 
  • The relationship between attending alcohol serving venues nearby versus distant to one's residence and sexual risk taking in a South African township. 
  • The relationship between multiple sex partners and anxiety, depression, and substance dependence disorders: a cohort study. 
  • The relationship between suicide risk and sexual orientation: results of a population-based study. 
  • The relationship of manic episodes and drug abuse to sexual risk behavior in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders: a 15-month prospective analysis. 
  • The role of testosterone in coordinating male life history strategies: The moderating effects of the androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism. 
  • The sexual risk context among the FEM-PrEP study population in Bondo, Kenya and Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • Trajectories of risk for early sexual activity and early substance use in the Fast Track prevention program. 
  • Urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome. 
  • Use of a brief behavioral skills intervention to prevent HIV infection among chronic mentally ill adults. 
  • Using cognitive interviews to evaluate items for measuring sexual functioning across cancer populations: improvements and remaining challenges. 
  • Weight-related quality of life in Spanish obese subjects suitable for bariatric surgery is lower than in their North American counterparts: a case-control study. 
  • What we don't talk about when we don't talk about sex: results of a national survey of U.S. obstetrician/gynecologists. 
  • When and why women might suspend PrEP use according to perceived seasons of risk: implications for PrEP-specific risk-reduction counselling. 
  • Why are young college women not using condoms? Their perceived risk, drug use, and developmental vulnerability may provide important clues to sexual risk. 
  • Willingness to participate in biomedical HIV prevention studies after the HVTN 503/Phambili trial: a survey conducted among adolescents in Soweto, South Africa. 
  • You can always pop a pill. 
  • Young Men's Social Network Characteristics and Associations with Sexual Partnership Concurrency in Tanzania. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Bennett, Vann, George B. Geller Professor for Research in Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Broverman, Sherryl A., Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology, Biology
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Halstater, Brian Hugh, Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Science Research Institute
  • Pang, Herbert, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor in the Department of History, History
  • Weinhold, Kent James, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine