Medical criminology notes No. 5: male homosexual prostitution.

Homosexual prostitution among male drug users and its risk for HIV infection.

OBJECTIVE to assess whether male prostitution is an independent risk factor for HIV infection among male (intravenous and nonintravenous) drug users. DESIGN a cross-sectional study. SETTING various low-threshold methadone clinics and the sexually transmitted diseases clinic of the Municipal Health Service in Amsterdam and a drug-treatment centre in The Hague. PARTICIPANTS 343 male intrave...

Legal and illegal drug use among female sex workers in bar and club prostitution in Belgium: A quantitative and qualitative study

Karolien van Nunen, Elke Leuridan, Guido Van Hal, Pierre Van Damme, & Tom Decorte Department of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Group Medical Sociology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University...

Sexual orientation, theory of mind and empathy: a comparison of male homosexual and male and female heterosexuals

Background: Researchers have been investigating similarities of and differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals for past few decades. Several studies have shown that in the particular domain (e.g., spatial ability), male homosexuals would resemble female heterosexuals better than male heterosexuals. Executive function, however, has received more attention than social cognition in this lin...

Hepatitis delta virus in homosexual men in Sydney.

In countries not generally endemic for hepatitis B, homosexual men who are carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) have to date largely been spared additional delta virus infection. A focus of homosexually acquired delta has, however, recently been identified in California. To assess the prevalence and risk factors for delta virus infection in homosexual men in Sydney, we tested the ser...

Medical criminology notes "1. Victim-precipitated criminal homicide.