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Article Dans Une Revue Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases Année : 2011

A portrait of Quebec Baby Boomers who Use the Internet to Meet Men for Sexual Purposes based on Data from the Quebec '' Net Gay Baromètre'' Study

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Objective: The online survey, “Net Gay Baromètre”, provides a portrait of men visiting websites for gay men to meet and can help describe their sexuality with casual and regular partners and guide prevention activities accordingly. Respondents of the baby boomer generation are described here. Method: Men were recruited between January and April, 2008 (n = 3560), through personalized e-mailing on nine major websites that are representative of the socio-sexual diversity of the French MSM population. Baby boomers (1945 > 1964) account for 26.1 % of the sample (n = 928). Bivariate analyses (χ2, t tests) as well as simple and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results : Compared with younger men, baby boomers are more educated and have a higher income. More of these men self-define as bisexual, report having been the victim of insults, frequent the gay community less often, and use sex venues (saunas, cruising spaces, etc.). Fewer baby boomers are in a committed relationship, more are HIV-positive. They are also sexually active, reporting as many casual sex partners as younger men in the past twelve months. They are more often in non-monogamous relationships. They also take part in sex involving the exchange of money more frequently. However, boomers engage in less unprotected anal intercourse for all frequency levels and have less bareback sex and anal exposure to sperm. Multivariate analyses show that regular unprotected anal intercourse, which is practiced by 16.5% of this group (vs. 21.1% among younger men), is associated with self-identifying as homosexual, taking drugs at least once, frequenting a sex venue, having had more than ten casual partners in the previous twelve months, engaging in marginal sexual practices, and having had oral contact with sperm over the same period. Conclusion: Baby boomers are often overlooked as a group in behavioural surveys of men who have sex with men. Our findings suggest that they are less integrated into the gay community and live alone more often than younger groups. Even though they are less frequently involved in risky sexual practices, predictors of regular risk-taking in this group overlap with those of the global sample.

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Sociologie
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halshs-01611398 , version 1 (05-10-2017)

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Alain Al Léobon, Marie-Claude Drouin, Joanne Otis, Joseph Josy Lévy. A portrait of Quebec Baby Boomers who Use the Internet to Meet Men for Sexual Purposes based on Data from the Quebec '' Net Gay Baromètre'' Study. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011, 22, pp.106B. ⟨halshs-01611398⟩
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