Characteristics associated with group sex participation among men and women in the club drug scene
Mance E. Buttram A B and Steven P. Kurtz AA Center For Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities, 2 NE 40th Street, Suite 404 Miami, FL 33137, USA.
B Corresponding author. Email: mance.buttram@nova.edu
Sexual Health 12(6) 560-562 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH15071
Submitted: 11 April 2015 Accepted: 10 July 2015 Published: 7 September 2015
Abstract
This study examined the demographics, substance use and sexual risk behaviours associated with group sex (GS) participation among a sample of club drug users (n = 498) in Miami. Men (n = 128; 46.3%) and women (n = 75; 33.7%) reported histories of GS. Group sex participation among men and women was associated with heroin and injection drug use, trading or selling sex, and sex while high, compared with no GS participation. Moreover, among men, GS was associated with buying sex and sex with an injection drug user; among women, GS was associated with substance dependence, a history of sexually transmissible infections and crack cocaine use, compared with no GS participation.
Additional keywords: heterosexual, HIV, opioids, sexually transmissible infections.
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