Comments on: Drink ’til you droop? Sadly not. http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/20/drink-til-you-droop-sadly-not/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: elizabeth http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/20/drink-til-you-droop-sadly-not/#comment-35 elizabeth Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:59:14 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/20/drink-til-you-droop-sadly-not/#comment-35 I'm so with Lee on both bears and bloodsuckers that I've started another post on the subject. http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/21/where-do-bears-shit/ I’m so with Lee on both bears and bloodsuckers that I’ve started another post on the subject.

http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/21/where-do-bears-shit/

]]> By: Lee Rudolph http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/20/drink-til-you-droop-sadly-not/#comment-34 Lee Rudolph Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:43:01 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2007/12/20/drink-til-you-droop-sadly-not/#comment-34 Re: "a much gretaer worry", I'm sure that there's an "I vant to be alone" joke lurking somewhere around here, but I won't hunt for it. To return to the topic, here's some more breaking news from the recent literature. "The mean number of times [female] teens [incarcerated in a Georgia, USA, 'detention center'] reported having [penile-vaginal] sex [in the 2 months before entering the center] while high on drugs or alcohol was 2.78 (SD = 5.5). A modest, but significant, relationship was found between this variable and the six-item index [of 'dichotomously assessed condom use errors and problems'] (r = .25; P < 0.01) as well as the summative measure (r = .35; P < 0.01). The mean number of teens [presumably, 'times' is missing here] reported having sex with a partner who was high on drugs or alcohol was 2.47 (SD = 3.7). Again, a modest, but significant relationship was found between this variable and the six-item index (r = .32; P < 0.01) as well as the summative measure (r = .37; P < 0.01). Thus, the first hypothesis [that '(1) alcohol and drug use during sex would co-occur with index measures of condom use errors and problems'] was supported." The second hypothesis, that "(2) an index measure of errors and problems would be significantly associated with biologically-confirmed STDs (chlamydia and gonorrhea)", was also confirmed. According to the authors, "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to show a relationship between the incorrect use of condoms and biologically-confirmed prevalence of STDs." The authors report no findings on the pressing third and fourth hypotheses, namely, that the Pope is Catholic and that bears shit in the woods. Citation: "Condom Misuse Among Adjudicated Girls: Associations with Laboratory-Confirmed Chlamydia and Gonorrhea", Crosby et al., J. Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 20(6), December 2007, 339-343. The abstract is available online but creating a reasonably compact URL has proved beyond me (the given DOI handle, , does not work). The full text is $30 and, yes, the research was (at least partly) publicly funded by NIH and NIAID. I guess $(30-18) is the premium one pays for choosing to deal with the bloodsuckers at Elsevier rather than the comparatively benign Royal Society of Medicine Press. Re: “a much gretaer worry”, I’m sure that there’s an “I vant to be alone” joke lurking somewhere around here, but I won’t hunt for it.

To return to the topic, here’s some more breaking news from the recent literature. “The mean number of times [female] teens [incarcerated in a Georgia, USA, 'detention center'] reported having [penile-vaginal] sex [in the 2 months before entering the center] while high on drugs or alcohol was 2.78 (SD = 5.5). A modest, but significant, relationship was found between this variable and the six-item index [of 'dichotomously assessed condom use errors and problems'] (r = .25; P < 0.01) as well as the summative measure (r = .35; P < 0.01). The mean number of teens [presumably, 'times' is missing here] reported having sex with a partner who was high on drugs or alcohol was 2.47 (SD = 3.7). Again, a modest, but significant relationship was found between this variable and the six-item index (r = .32; P < 0.01) as well as the summative measure (r = .37; P < 0.01). Thus, the first hypothesis [that '(1) alcohol and drug use during sex would co-occur with index measures of condom use errors and problems'] was supported.”

The second hypothesis, that “(2) an index measure of errors and problems would be significantly associated with biologically-confirmed STDs (chlamydia and gonorrhea)”, was also confirmed. According to the authors, “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to show a relationship between the incorrect use of condoms and biologically-confirmed prevalence of STDs.”

The authors report no findings on the pressing third and fourth hypotheses, namely, that the Pope is Catholic and that bears shit in the woods.

Citation: “Condom Misuse Among Adjudicated Girls: Associations with Laboratory-Confirmed Chlamydia and Gonorrhea”, Crosby et al., J. Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 20(6), December 2007, 339-343. The abstract is available online but creating a reasonably compact URL has proved beyond me (the given DOI handle, , does not work). The full text is $30 and, yes, the research was (at least partly) publicly funded by NIH and NIAID. I guess $(30-18) is the premium one pays for choosing to deal with the bloodsuckers at Elsevier rather than the comparatively benign Royal Society of Medicine Press.

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