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Citation

Downey J, Friedman RC, Haase E, Goldenberg D, Bell R, Edsall S. Psychiatry J. 2016; 2016: e5839181.

Affiliation

Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, San Mateo County Psychiatric Department, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2016/5839181

PMID

27190984

Abstract

Sexual behavior over the past year of 32 outpatients with Bipolar disorder is compared to that of 44 Comparison patients that had never had an episode of affective illness. Subjects were outpatients treated with drugs and psychotherapy in routine office practice. Differences in sexual behavior between the two groups as a whole were minimal, but meaningful differences emerged when subgroups were compared. Compared to control men, Bipolar men had had more partners in the last year and were more likely to have had sex without condoms. Compared to Bipolar females, Bipolar males had more sex partners, had more sex with strangers, and were more likely to have engaged in homosexual behavior. Even so, some patients in the Comparison group also had engaged in risky sexual behavior. They had failed to use condoms and had had sex with strangers and prostitutes during the previous year.


Language: en

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