Alcohol, AIDS risks and sex industry clients: results from a Scottish study

During 1988 and 1989 self-reported data were obtained from 206 males and three females who had paid for physical sexual services. Respondents were contacted by “snowballing”, mainly with the assistance of sex workers. The study group reported that both alcohol and illicit drug use were commonplace d...

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Published in:Drug and alcohol dependence 1990-11, Vol.26 (3), p.265-269
Main Authors: Thomas, Ruth Morgan, Plant, Martin A., Plant, Moira L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - transmission
Addictive behaviors
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
AIDS
alcohol
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Client Characteristics
clients
Cross-Sectional Studies
drugs
Female
HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Prostitution
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk
Risk Factors
Scotland
Scotland - epidemiology
Sex Work - statistics & numerical data
Smoking - epidemiology
Street Drugs
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - complications
Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders - complications
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
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Summary:During 1988 and 1989 self-reported data were obtained from 206 males and three females who had paid for physical sexual services. Respondents were contacted by “snowballing”, mainly with the assistance of sex workers. The study group reported that both alcohol and illicit drug use were commonplace during their contact with prostitutes. No general association between alcohol and drug use and ‘risky sex’ was evident. Even so amongst males who had anal sex with males alcohol consumption was inversely related to condom use.
ISSN:0376-8716
1879-0046
DOI:10.1016/0376-8716(90)90168-E