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Article: "Dipping" may throw off conventional measures of sexual behavior.
- Article from:
- Drug Week
- Article date:
- April 16, 2004
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2004 APR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The practice of "dipping" may throw off conventional measures of male-male sexual behavior.
According to scientists in the United States, "[b]rief acts of unprotected anal sex (i.e. 'dipping') have not been systematically measured in AIDS research."
"Eleven per cent of HIV-positive men who reported that they had not engaged in any unprotected insertive anal intercourse with an HIV-negative or unknown status partner reported that they did engage in insertive 'dipping'," reported C.C. Hoff and colleagues at the University of California-San Francisco.
"Men reported 'dipping' an average of 5.1 times, ...