By Anne Prigent
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An American study finds an increased risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection for those who use dating sites. But this correlation could have other reasons, explain specialists.
Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, OkCupid, Tinder… Dating apps are now part of the landscape. Among those under 30, they are even well established since 40% of them declare having already used them, as recalled by an Inserm survey on the sexuality of the French published last November. At the same time, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia or gonococcal infections, are on the rise. Can we make a link between these two phenomena? Does using dating apps promote risky behavior? To answer these questions, researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington surveyed 122 students via an online questionnaire. They asked them about their use of dating apps, their number of partners, their use or not of condoms, their testing practices and their history of STIs.
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