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High-risk sexual behavior is topic for Kinsey summer
institute at IU
July 5, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- "Understanding High Risk Sexual Behavior" is the title
of the first in a new series of summer institutes scheduled at the Kinsey
Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.
John Bancroft, director of the Kinsey Institute, is the program director for
the July 22-29 event that will be attended by 25 graduate students selected from
throughout the United States and abroad.
Issues to be covered include personality factors relevant to high-risk sexual
behavior, relevance of sexual identity to sexual risk, the adolescent and sexual
risk, cross-cultural aspects of sexual risk-taking, male-female differences in
sexual risk-tasking, sexual risk-taking in special populations, and ethical
aspects of research in this area.
Bancroft said nationwide experts on various aspects of researching high-risk
sexual behavior will comprise the faculty for the institute. "The focus of the
summer institute will be to provide specific training in methodological and
theoretical aspects of researching high-risk sexual behavior," explained
Bancroft.
The invited faculty will include representatives from the Kinsey Institute,
IUPUI, University of California at San Francisco, Emory University, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and the University of Texas.
For more information, contact Cynthia Graham at the Kinsey Institute at
812-855-7686 or cygraham@indiana.edu
(Jennifer Bass, 812-855-7686, jbass@indiana.edu)