Linda Cusick
Biographic Data
| ID | 282465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Cusick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Cusick |
| SIGNATURE | CUSICK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wild guesses and conflated meanings? Estimating the size of the sex worker population in Britain
This paper reports the number of sex workers in Scotland and England who are in contact with specialist services for sex workers. Then, using methods and multipliers derived from the frequently quoted Kinnell study (1999) the paper provides various updated estimates of the wider population of sex workers. We point out the limits of our estimates and the methodological difficulties of estimating the size of this hidden population. The paper argues…
Higher and further education institution policies on student and staff involvement in commercial sex
This paper concerns higher and further education institutions' policies as they relate to the interactions of their staff and students with the sex industry. In Scotland and England, consenting adults may legally buy and sell sex and commercial sexual entertainment, such as erotic dance and phone sex, provided that they do not do so in a public place. The indoor commercial sex sector is legally staffed and patronised by a wide variety of individu…
Public perceptions of public drug use in four UK urban sites
Widening the harm reduction agenda
Prioritizing punitive responses over public health
Following its review of the Sexual Offences Act (2003), the Home Office undertook a review of legislation on sex work. Policy will be shaped by responses to the consultation document, Paying the Price: a Consultation Paper on Prostitution. How the consultation conceives problems of sex work is therefore crucially important. Sex work service providers and rights campaigners are concerned that the consultation turns attention away from health issue…
What's wrong with addiction
Accounting for unprotected sex
Sustaining sexual safety in relationships
This paper presents findings on how sexual safety is sustained in relationships. A qualitative study was undertaken to gather data on the social relations of sexual negotiation and safety among HIV positive people and their sexual partners. HIV positive people were found to avoid close relationships because of the difficulties of sustaining safer sex with regular partners. In response, many sought HIV positive concordant partners, and unprotected…
Love and intimacy in relationship risk management
This paper is about intimacy and its role in relationship risk management. Drawing on qualitative interviews with HIV positive people and their primary sexual partners it becomes apparent that a key tension in relationship risk management is the balance struck between 'relationship safety' and 'viral danger'. We find 'love' and 'intimacy' to be key features of relationship survival, with relationship intimacy and security signalled or strengthene…
The process of disclosing positive HIV status
Self-disclosure of HIV positive status is thought to have the potential to enhance trust and social acceptance in social relationships and to reduce the onwards transmission risks of HIV in sexual relationships where at least one partner is HIVpositive. As part of a wider qualitative study investigating sexual safety in the context of HIV infection, we undertook 73 qualitative in-depth interviews with HIVpositive individuals and the sexual partne…
Non-use of condoms by prostitute women
Ethnographic research among Glasgow female prostitutes working in street, sauna, flat, escort agency and "sugar daddy" sectors investigated prostitutes' accounts of the occasions in which condoms were not used for penetrative sexual encounters. Such occasions were a minority of commercial sex encounters and a majority of private sex encounters. Although prostitutes saw condom use as inappropriate in private sexual relationships this was not, as h…
Scottish Inferiority
Love and intimacy in relationship risk management
This paper is about intimacy and its role in relationship risk management. Drawing on qualitative interviews with HIV positive people and their primary sexual partners it becomes apparent that a key tension in relationship risk management is the balance struck between 'relationship safety' and 'viral danger'. We find 'love' and 'intimacy' to be key features of relationship survival, with relationship intimacy and security signalled or strengthene…
Accounting for unprotected sex
Prioritizing punitive responses over public health
Following its review of the Sexual Offences Act (2003), the Home Office undertook a review of legislation on sex work. Policy will be shaped by responses to the consultation document, Paying the Price: a Consultation Paper on Prostitution. How the consultation conceives problems of sex work is therefore crucially important. Sex work service providers and rights campaigners are concerned that the consultation turns attention away from health issue…
Higher and further education institution policies on student and staff involvement in commercial sex
This paper concerns higher and further education institutions' policies as they relate to the interactions of their staff and students with the sex industry. In Scotland and England, consenting adults may legally buy and sell sex and commercial sexual entertainment, such as erotic dance and phone sex, provided that they do not do so in a public place. The indoor commercial sex sector is legally staffed and patronised by a wide variety of individu…
Wild guesses and conflated meanings? Estimating the size of the sex worker population in Britain
This paper reports the number of sex workers in Scotland and England who are in contact with specialist services for sex workers. Then, using methods and multipliers derived from the frequently quoted Kinnell study (1999) the paper provides various updated estimates of the wider population of sex workers. We point out the limits of our estimates and the methodological difficulties of estimating the size of this hidden population. The paper argues…
Scottish Inferiority
Scottish Inferiority
Non-use of condoms by prostitute women
Ethnographic research among Glasgow female prostitutes working in street, sauna, flat, escort agency and "sugar daddy" sectors investigated prostitutes' accounts of the occasions in which condoms were not used for penetrative sexual encounters. Such occasions were a minority of commercial sex encounters and a majority of private sex encounters. Although prostitutes saw condom use as inappropriate in private sexual relationships this was not, as h…
The process of disclosing positive HIV status
Self-disclosure of HIV positive status is thought to have the potential to enhance trust and social acceptance in social relationships and to reduce the onwards transmission risks of HIV in sexual relationships where at least one partner is HIVpositive. As part of a wider qualitative study investigating sexual safety in the context of HIV infection, we undertook 73 qualitative in-depth interviews with HIVpositive individuals and the sexual partne…
Sustaining sexual safety in relationships
This paper presents findings on how sexual safety is sustained in relationships. A qualitative study was undertaken to gather data on the social relations of sexual negotiation and safety among HIV positive people and their sexual partners. HIV positive people were found to avoid close relationships because of the difficulties of sustaining safer sex with regular partners. In response, many sought HIV positive concordant partners, and unprotected…
Love and intimacy in relationship risk management
This paper is about intimacy and its role in relationship risk management. Drawing on qualitative interviews with HIV positive people and their primary sexual partners it becomes apparent that a key tension in relationship risk management is the balance struck between 'relationship safety' and 'viral danger'. We find 'love' and 'intimacy' to be key features of relationship survival, with relationship intimacy and security signalled or strengthene…
Accounting for unprotected sex
What's wrong with addiction
Prioritizing punitive responses over public health
Following its review of the Sexual Offences Act (2003), the Home Office undertook a review of legislation on sex work. Policy will be shaped by responses to the consultation document, Paying the Price: a Consultation Paper on Prostitution. How the consultation conceives problems of sex work is therefore crucially important. Sex work service providers and rights campaigners are concerned that the consultation turns attention away from health issue…
Widening the harm reduction agenda
Public perceptions of public drug use in four UK urban sites
Wild guesses and conflated meanings? Estimating the size of the sex worker population in Britain
This paper reports the number of sex workers in Scotland and England who are in contact with specialist services for sex workers. Then, using methods and multipliers derived from the frequently quoted Kinnell study (1999) the paper provides various updated estimates of the wider population of sex workers. We point out the limits of our estimates and the methodological difficulties of estimating the size of this hidden population. The paper argues…
Higher and further education institution policies on student and staff involvement in commercial sex
This paper concerns higher and further education institutions' policies as they relate to the interactions of their staff and students with the sex industry. In Scotland and England, consenting adults may legally buy and sell sex and commercial sexual entertainment, such as erotic dance and phone sex, provided that they do not do so in a public place. The indoor commercial sex sector is legally staffed and patronised by a wide variety of individu…
Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sex work and related issues (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works)