Fear of Aids Among Swingers

Dimming the “Halo” Around Monogamy: Re-assessing Stigma Surrounding Consensually Non-monogamous Romantic Relationships as a Function of Personal Relationship Orientation

“…Additionally, a series of studies on the prevalence and correlates of STIs among swingers has been published by a Dutch research team from an STI clinic ( Dukers-Muijrers et al, 2010 ; Niekamp et al, 2011 ; Spauwen et al, 2014 ). Across their studies, they conclude that swingers are vulnerable to STI acquisition, corroborating prior research documenting a link between STIs and swingers ( Jenks, 1992 ). As such, we expected the greatest perceived STI rates to be reported for swinging targets, regardless of participants own relationship orientation (Hypothesis 4).…”

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

“…After a confluence in the mid-1980s (D. J. Dixon, 1985;Duckworth & Levitt, 1985;Jenks, 1985a, b;Murstein et al, 1985;Wolf, 1985) followed by a fallow period in the mid-to-late 1980s and 1990s with a handful of studies (Fine, 1992;Jenks, 1992Jenks, , 1998Musso, 1988), such research took a marked upswing in the mid-to-late 2000s, possibly corresponding with a renewed interest in open non-monogamies brought on by polyamory discourse, including a revival of the older, less identitarian, idiom of open relationships (see, for example, the prominent mainstream reception of Jenny Block's Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage (2008) (Rambukkana, 2015). A more recent example of this less identitarian discussion of open nonmonogamies is Meg Barker's Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships (2012).…”