Social:Sexual network
A sexual network is a social network that is defined by the sexual relationships within a set of individuals.
Studies and discoveries
Like other forms of social networks, sexual networks can be formally studied using the mathematics of graph theory and network theory.[1][2]
Recent epidemiological studies[3] have investigated sexual networks, and suggest that the statistical properties of sexual networks are crucial to the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Sub-graphs, both large and small, can be defined within the overall sexual network graph; for example, people who frequent particular bars or clubs, belong to a particular ethnic group or take part in a particular type of sexual activity, or are part of a particular outbreak of an STI. In particular, assortative mixing between people with large numbers of sexual partners seems to be an important factor in the spread of an STI.
In a surprising result, mathematical models predict that the sexual network graph for the human race appears to have a single giant component that indirectly links almost all people who have had more than one sexual partner, and a great many of those who have had only one sexual partner (if their one sexual partner was themselves part of the giant component). [citation needed].
For more detailed epidemiological work, the time sequence of sexual contacts is important.
See also
- Bugchasing
- Contact tracing
- Small world experiment
- Social network
References
- ↑ Liljeros, Fredrik; Christofer R. Edling; Luis A. Nunes Amaral (2003). "Sexual networks: implications for the transmission of sexually transmitted infections". Microbes and Infection 5 (2): 189–196. doi:10.1016/s1286-4579(02)00058-8. PMID 12650777.
- ↑ Liljeros, Fredrik; Christofer R. Edling; Luis A. Nunes Amaral; H. Eugene Stanley; Yvonne Aberg (2001). "The web of human sexual contacts". Nature 411 (6840): 907–908. doi:10.1038/35082140. PMID 11418846. Bibcode: 2001Natur.411..907L.
- ↑ Rocha, L.E.C.; Fredrik Liljeros; Petter Holme (2010). "Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (13): 5706–5713. doi:10.1073/pnas.0914080107. PMID 20231480. Bibcode: 2010PNAS..107.5706R.
Further reading
- M Kretzschmar. "Sexual network structure and sexually transmitted disease prevention: a modeling perspective". Sexually Transmitted Diseases volume 27, number 10 (November 2000): pages 627– 35.
- De, P. (2004). "Sexual network analysis of a gonorrhea outbreak". Sex Transm Infect 80 (4): 280–285. doi:10.1136/sti.2003.007187. PMID 15295126. PMC 1744860. http://sextrans.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/80/4/280.
- Bearman, P. S.; Moody, J.; Stovel, K. (2004). "Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks.". American Journal of Sociology 110 (1): 44–91. doi:10.1086/386272.
- L E C Rocha, F Liljeros and P Holme Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences free online (March 2010).
- Apostolopoulos, Y.; Sönmez, S.; Shattell, M.; Kronenfeld, J.; Smith, D.; Stanton, S. (2011). "Cruising for Truckers on Highways and the Internet: Sexual Networks and Infection Risk". AIDS Education and Prevention 23 (3): 249–266. doi:10.1521/aeap.2011.23.3.249. PMID 21696243. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/S_Sonmez_Cruising_2011.pdf.
- O'Connor, M. L. (1999). "Sexual Network Patterns Contribute to Racial Disparities in Disease Risk. Family". Planning Perspectives 31 (6): 309–310. doi:10.2307/2991545.
- Choudhury, B.; Risley, C.; Ghani, A.; Bishop, C.; Ward, H.; Fenton, K.; Spratt, B. (2006). "Identification of individuals with gonorrhoea within sexual networks: a population-based study". Lancet 368 (9530): 139–146. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69003-X. PMID 16829298.
- Day, S. S.; Ward, H. H. (1998). "Sexual networks: The integration of social and genetic data". Social Science & Medicine 47 (12): 1981–92. doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(98)00306-2. PMID 10075241.
- Nyanzi, S., Nyanzi, B., Kalina, B., & Pool, R. (n.d). Mobility, sexual networks and exchange among bodabodamen in southwest Uganda. Taylor & Francis Ltd. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
- Morris, Martina; Zavisca, Jane; Dean, Laura (1995). "Social and sexual networks: Their role in the spread of HIV/AIDS among young gay men". AIDS Education and Prevention 7 (Suppl): 24–35. PMID 8664095.
External links
- Researchers map the sexual network of an entire high school
- Patterns of prostitution captured in social network
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