B R Simon Rosser

Male Homosexual Behavior and the Effects of AIDS Education (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Behavior and Safer Sex in New Zealand and South Australia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the disease. But how well has AIDS education worked? What kinds of education work best and for whom? This study is the first to provide an in-depth analysis of the results of AIDS education programs and to explore the psychosocial factors that affect behavioral responses to education.

B. R. Simon Rosser provides a detailed profile of a specific population at risk, including factors such as sexual behavior, psychology, religious affiliation, legal status, and discrimination. Using comparative measures of behavior, personality, social status, attitudes, and risk-taking, he identifies important differences between homosexual men who engage in safer sex and those who do not. Finally, he evaluates the impact of different approaches to AIDS education. Examining both positive and negative effects, Rosser shows that the spread of the HIV virus was actually accelerated by a national education campaign utilizing fear, and contrasts this result with four international gay-sensitive education campaigns that produced positive changes in behavior and lifestyle. He discusses ways in which AIDS education must develop in order to become more effective, together with crucial changes that are needed in both the gay population and the larger community if HIV transmission is to be halted. This study is a valuable resource for education and research in AIDS prevention, sexual behavior, psychovenereology, education, health, and related disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313388941
• Artikelnr.: 37828560

Autorenporträt

B. R. SIMON ROSSER is a licensed psychologist and an assistant professor at the Program in Human Sexuality in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. He is the author of Male Homosexual Behavior and the Effects of AIDS Education (Praeger, 1991), as well as numerous journal articles in psychology, medicine, primary health care, venereology, AIDS, and theology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Research Purpose, Background, and Methods
Homosexuality in New Zealand and South Australia Male Homosexual Behavior
in New Zealand Comparison of Homosexual Behavior and Society in New Zealand
and South Australia Personality, Emotional, and Mental Health Differences
Between Homosexual and Heterosexual Men Violence, Discrimination and the
Law Religious Characteristics of New Zealand Homosexually Active Men
Factors Associated with Safer Sex and Unsafe Sex in Homosexually Active Men
Safer Sex and Unsafe Sex in Homosexually Active Men Demographic, Behavioral
Social, and Counseling Factors Associated with Safer Sex and Unsafe Sex
Condom Usage and Attitudes Toward Condoms Associated with Safer Sex and
Unsafe Sex Personality, Emotional, and Mental Health Factors Associated
with Safer Sex and Unsafe Sex Risk-Taking Strategies in Life Associated
with Safer Sex and Unsafe Sex Perceptions of Risk Associated with Safer Sex
and Unsafe Sex The Effects of AIDS Education on Male Homosexual Behavior
Fighting Back: Introduction to AIDS Education The Influence of
Gay-Sensitive AIDS Education on Perception of Risk for HIV Exposure The
Effects of Gay-Sensitive AIDS Education on the Behavior of Homosexually
Active Men The Effects of a National Fear Campaign About AIDS on the
Behavior of Homosexually Active Men Major Conclusions and Implications of
the Study Major Conclusions of the Study To the Future: Gay Life in the
Twenty-First Century References Index