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The research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln examined how college students' social networks often lead them to define, perceive and participate in hookups -- the slang term for casual intimate encounters outside of dating or exclusive relationships. The study also looked at the extent to which those networks influenced risky sexual behavior.

In the study, 84 percent of students said they had talked with their college friends in the previous four months about sexual hookups. But when asked how many hookups they had had during the school year, students reported far fewer for himself or herself than what they assumed a typical student had experienced.

Yet, the study found, such regular talk about hookups had a normalizing effect on students' views about the practice. That led to a more approving attitude toward hookups and, often, riskier sexual behavior, researchers said.

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There’s Robert Brewster, age 75, who reminds us that "it’s all about living. It’s about trying to experience as much of life’s beauty that I can experience in the next… in the rest of suction cup realistic dildos my life.”

Sixty-four-year-old Anna Fowlkes is less sanguine and seems embarrassed to disclose her naiveté to Heinemann. "I was uneducated,” she begins. "My generation used condoms as a means of contraception, not to prevent disease. We are of a generation where that was not something we had to think about. We didn’t consider that there were diseases that could literally kill you, that you could get by not protecting yourself.”

Other interviews run the gamut—and introduce people who are sassy, heartbreaking, and everything in between. Likewise, the range of topics they address is broad—from the pain of being shunned as a pariah, to anger, guilt, and fear.

Heinemann and Schegloff are proud of these interviews and the photos that accompany them. Nonetheless, both consider The Graying of AIDS to be a work in progress and are eager to reach as many HIV-positive elders as they can realistic vaginas and capture their experiences on tape.

That said, the fact that the Project is a barely-funded labor of love limits them to working on it in their spare time, as volunteers. "We’re not just a public health project, or an arts or new media project so it’s been hard to get grants,” Schegloff shrugs. "We’re not in a well-defined niche. And as much as we care about people with HIV/AIDS and want to hear their stories, what we’ve been doing is not sustainable in the long term. We need money.”

For a fleeting second both women look and sound defeated, but they quickly perk up as Schegloff makes a final point. "There is not much out there about what it means to age with HIV,” she concludes. "The people we’re interviewing are pioneers, and we can learn from their lives and experiences. It’s not just that listening to them is the boy friend right thing to do. These interviews can benefit the people who are behind them, who will likely have better access to medications and interventions and who will likely be living with HIV far into the future.”

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