Abstract
Background
Men making love with males (MSM) usually make an online search to locate intercourse lovers. We examined the relationship between unprotected rectal intercourse (UAI) with lovers dated on the internet and with lovers dated offline (came across somewhere else), and examined whether distinctions may be explained by self-perceived HIV status regarding the index and knowledge of partnership traits.
Practices
MSM were recruited in the Sexually sent Infections Clinic in Amsterdam, in 2008–2009. Individuals finished a questionnaire concerning behaviour that is sexual. Just males reporting both on the web and offline casual intercourse lovers had been included. We evaluated the relationship between online/offline partner dating and UAI, making use of random-effects logistic regression analysis.
Outcomes
Five hundred seventy-seven guys (351 HIV-negative, 153 HIV-positive, and 73 HIV-unaware) reported UAI in 26 per cent of 878 online, and 23 percent of 903 offline partnerships that are casual. The OR that is crude of dating for UAI ended up being 1.36 (95 per cent CI 1.03–1.81). HIV-positive guys had been prone to report UAI than HIV-negative males (49 % vs. 28 per cent of partnerships). Adjusted for demographic characteristics, internet dating had no effect that is significant UAI among HIV-negative and HIV status-unaware guys, but HIV-positive guys had been almost certainly going to have UAI with online partners (aOR = 1.65 95 per cent CI 1.05–2.57). The effect of online/offline dating on UAI among HIV-positive MSM was reduced and no longer significant after correction for partner and partnership characteristics. Continue reading Does internet dating lead to raised intimate risk behavior? A cross-sectional research among MSM in Amsterdam, holland