Document 0834
 DOCN  M9460834
 TI    Inner-city women and AIDS: the psycho-social benefits of unsafe sex.
 DT    9404
 AU    Sobo EJ; Department of Sociology/Anthropology, New Mexico State;
       University, Las Cruces 88003.
 SO    Cult Med Psychiatry. 1993 Dec;17(4):455-85. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94155610
 AB    The paper describes and analyzes findings from a larger study of the
       links between low levels of condom use and impoverished, urban,
       African-American women's experiences and understandings of heterosexual
       relationships. The research identifies and explores psycho-social
       barriers to safer-sex. This article examines, in detail, HIV/AIDS risk
       denial and women's strategic use of unsafe (condomless) sex and monogamy
       narratives to build and to maintain this denial. The tendency to view
       urban African-American women's conjugal affiliations as instrumental is
       questioned.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       *PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  AIDS Serodiagnosis/PSYCHOLOGY
       Blacks/*PSYCHOLOGY  Communication Barriers  Female  Human  Infant
       Infant, Newborn  Internal-External Control  *Knowledge, Attitudes,
       Practice  Marriage/PSYCHOLOGY  Poverty/*PSYCHOLOGY  *Poverty Areas
       Pregnancy  Risk Factors  *Sex Behavior  Sexual Partners/PSYCHOLOGY
       Social Values  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW,
       TUTORIAL

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