Introduction: Extramarital affairs disrupt family functioning and have serious negative consequences for the members. Aim: The present study aimed to compare effectiveness of combined cognitive-behavioral couple therapy integrated behavioral in improving couples with extramarital affairs. Method: In this quasi-experimental study, a pretest-posttest control group design, statistical population c...

CONTEXT Since 1990, HIV infection in Brazil has spread among the heterosexual population, particularly in the north. Containment of the epidemic can be informed by a better understanding of men's sexual risk behavior. METHODS Logistic, Poisson and multilevel logit models were applied to data on married and cohabiting men who had participated in the 1996 Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey...

The objective of the study is to assess views of age related changes in sexual behavior among married Thai adults age 53 to 57. Results are viewed in the context of life course theory. In-depth interviews were conducted with 44 Thai adults in Bangkok and the four regions of Thailand. Topics covered include changing sexual behavior with age, adjustment to this change, gender differences in behav...

In the southern United States, North Carolina has attracted an unprecedented influx of Hispanic immigrants in the 1990s. Detailed data on the sexual behavior of these recent immigrants are lacking. This exploratory study used two methods, a survey and qualitative interviews. For both methods, participants were recruited using convenience sampling. All study participants were first-generation Me...

Surveys reveal that the vast majority of people in the United States expect sexual monogamy in marriage and disapprove of extramarital involvement (EMI; Atwater, 1979; Buss & Shackelford, 1997; Singh, Walton, & Williams, 1976; Smith, 1994; Thornton, 1989; Treas & Giesen, 2000; Wiederman & Allgeier, 1996) with up to 97% of respondents stating that married persons should not engage in extramarita...

CONTEXT In many parts of Africa, women are most likely to become infected with HIV by having unprotected sex with their husbands, who may have acquired the virus through extramarital sex. However, the ways in which aspects of community environments-particularly those related to gender equity-shape men's extramarital sexual risk-taking are not well understood. METHODS Demographic and Health Su...

Humans are quite unusual compared to other great apes in that reproduction typically takes place within long-term, iteroparous pairings--social arrangements that have been culturally reified as the institution of marriage. With respect to male behaviour, explanations of marriage fall into two major schools of thought. One holds that marriage facilitates a sexual division of labour and paternal ...