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Online Dating Among Australian Gay and Bisexual Men: Romance or Hooking Up?

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:14 authored by Garrett P. Prestage, Benjamin R. Bavinton, Jeffrey Grierson, Ian A. Down, Phillip Keen, Jack Bradley, Duane Duncan
Increasingly, gay and bisexual men (GBM) meet casual sex partners online and this has been associated with sexual risk behavior. How do GBM meet regular partners? This online anonymous survey of 4215 GBM included 2562 men with a primary regular partner (PRP) who were included in these analyses. Mean age of the sample was 38.1 years. 60.3 % had met their PRP at least 2 years earlier. Meeting their PRP online increased from 14.0 % before 2001 to 79.9 % in 2013–2014. At all time points, men who met their PRP online were somewhat older than those who met their PRP offline. Regardless of how they met their PRP, most men met casual sex partners online. Among GBM, meeting sexual and romantic partners online has replaced other methods, for all age groups. The population of GBM who use the internet for this purpose is now equivalent to all sexually active GBM.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

19

Issue number

10

Page range

1905-1913

Publication title

AIDS and Behavior

ISSN

1573-3254

Publisher

Springer

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-03-22

Legacy creation date

2021-01-28

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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