Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. We ran multivariate models to determine the association between venues and condomless anal sex CAS. Much of the recent research on venues has focused on the Internet as a primary source of sexual partnering, 10 β 14 and researchers have spent considerable time determining whether meeting partners on the Internet is associated with greater risk for condomless anal sex CAS.
Researchers have found the venue in which partners were met might be associated with differential levels of CAS. One study found that GBMSM who attended sex parties in the last year were significantly more likely to report recent CAS than men who had never been to a sex party and men who had been to a sex party greater than a year ago.
In spite of data suggesting sex party attendance might be common among GBMSM, there are few comparative analyses showing levels of risk among partners met via sex parties relative to other venues.
In addition, although research has examined if men who meet partners via sex parties differ from men who do not in general , 22 , 26 it remains unclear if meeting a partner at a sex party is associated with elevated risk at the event level. With few exceptions, 5 , 15 there has been little work to connect sexual behaviors with the actual venue where a partner was metβan event-level analysis. To address these limitations, we conducted an event-level analysis to determine the association between the venues where GBMSM met their sex partners and subsequent CAS among a sample of men recruited from gay bars and clubs, Craigslist.
Each cohort consisted of 50 men, one recruited from Craigslist. Recruitment procedures have been detailed elsewhere. Participants were enrolled between β Participants completed an interviewer-administered timeline follow-back TLFB interview.
