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...Luke, a demographer and sociologist, said she combined her expertise with that of Kyvan Munshi, an economist at Brown University...
From an economics perspective, Luke said, women in Africa are weighing the risks and benefits of engaging in this sort of economic transaction—and are finding it worthwhile to trade unsafe sex for material assistance...
This, she said, is indicative of a larger social problem. “Perhaps if women had better outside options, they wouldn’t have to go these relationships as a source of income,” Luke said last evening. “This might be reflective of the poor economic options that women have...
...Luke noted that although “Sugar Daddy” relationships seem to be universal, her research does not necessarily indicate a universal mechanism in the spread of AIDS. “I would say that if we look at economic exchange within relationships, that happens across all parts of the world,” said Luke. “But the giving of gifts connected to unsafe behavior is highly context specific...
...future research, Luke and her colleagues hope to analyze risk behaviors within marital contexts as well as in extra-marital contexts, and to look at how such behaviors change over time...