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"Barebacking - when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex - has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy , Tim Dean's riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean's profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean's extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene's bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and, documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and Unlimited Intimacy explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus - especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits - one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal - barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works. Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, Unlimited Intimacy will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior." --

Unsafe sex. --- Gay men --- Risk-taking (Psychology) --- Male homosexuality --- Risk behavior --- Risky behavior --- Taking risks --- Human behavior --- Bareback sex --- Barebacking (Sex) --- Condomless sex --- High-risk sex --- Raw sex --- Risky sex --- Unprotected sex --- Sexual intercourse --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality

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Sub-national estimates of HIV prevalence can inform the design of policy responses to the HIV epidemic. Such responses also benefit from a better understanding of the correlates of HIV status, including the association between HIV and geographical characteristics of localities. In recent years, several countries in Africa have implemented household surveys (such as Demographic and Health Surveys) that include HIV testing of the adult population, providing estimates of HIV prevalence rates at the sub-national level. These surveys are known to suffer from non-response bias, but are nonetheless thought to represent a marked improvement over alternatives such as sentinel surveys. At present, however, most countries are not in a position to regularly field such household surveys. This paper proposes a new approach to the estimation of HIV prevalence for relatively small geographic areas in settings where national population-based surveys of prevalence are not available. The proposed approach aims to overcome some of the difficulties with prevailing methods of deriving HIV prevalence estimates (at both national and sub-national levels) directly from sentinel surveys. The paper also outlines some of the limitations of the proposed approach.

Adult population --- Disease Control & Prevention --- Education of women --- Epidemic --- Gender --- Gender and Health --- Health --- Hiv --- HIV AIDS --- Household surveys --- Human development --- National aids --- National level --- National population --- Nutrition and Population --- Place of residence --- Policy --- Policy makers --- Policy research --- Policy research working paper --- Population Policies --- Pregnant women --- Progress --- Rural areas --- Science and Technology Development --- Scientific Research & Science Parks --- Unprotected sex --- Urban areas --- Woman

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Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use, unprotected sex, and criminal activity. Economic principles are further applied to mental health and performance issues such as teenage depression, suicide, nutritional disorders, and high school dropout rates. Together, the essays yield notable findings: price and regulatory incentives are critical determinants of high-risk behavior, suggesting that youths do apply some sort of cost/benefit calculation when making decisions; the macroeconomic environment in which those decisions are made matters greatly; and youths who pursue high-risk behaviors are significantly more likely to engage in similar behaviors as adults. This important volume provides both a key data source for public policy makers and a clear affirmation of the usefulness of economic analysis to our understanding of risky behavior.

Decision making in adolescence. --- Decision making in adolescence - Economic aspects. --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence. --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence - Economic aspects. --- Youth - Psychology - Economic aspects. --- Youth. --- Risk-Taking --- Social Problems --- Adolescent --- Age Groups --- Sociology --- Behavior --- Persons --- Social Sciences --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Named Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Child & Youth Development --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Decision making in adolescence --- Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence --- Youth --- Economic aspects --- Psychology --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Adolescent psychology --- Alcoolisme --- Comportement sexuel --- Comportement --- Délinquance juvénile --- Drogues --- Jeune adulte --- behavior, youth, high school dropout rates, risk, eating disorders, nutrition, safety, life choices, suicide, mental health, depression, teenage, performance, economics, statistics, crime, unprotected sex, drug use, smoking, drinking and driving, teen, dui, psychology, adolescence, decision making, marijuana, birth control, sexual activity, juvenile, enrollment, malnourished, nonfiction, sociology. --- Jeunesse --- Prise de risque --- Suicide --- Tabagisme --- Transports