Apostolopoulos Yorghos, Sönmez Sevil, Shattell Mona, Kronenfeld Jennie, Stanton Sarah
Department of Public Health Education, School of Health and Human Performance, University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA.
AIDS Educ Prev. 2011 Jun;23(3):249-66. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2011.23.3.249.
Empirical evidence on the heterosexual partnerships of long-haul truckers suggests connections among occupational stressors, substance misuse, structural factors, and risk for sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Yet the potential risks associated with same-sex partnerships of truckers and truckchasers (men who specifically cruise for truckers) remain largely unknown. Drawing from diverse sources as well as primary and secondary data from 173 truckers and "truckchasers," we discuss how trucking and cruising contexts, in conjunction with Internet fora, jointly create a risk-enabling environment for truckers and their sex contacts. Findings point toward an elusive but extensive sexual network that spans across the Internet and highways and takes advantage of truckers' mobility as it bridges disparate epidemiological spaces and populations. The delineation of cruising within the hypermasculine occupational sector of trucking adds new insights to the study of sexual health, which is particularly important considering the riskladen sex contacts of truckers and truckchasers and potential for infection spread.
关于长途卡车司机异性恋伴侣关系的实证证据表明，职业压力源、药物滥用、结构因素与性传播感染及艾滋病毒风险之间存在关联。然而，与卡车司机和卡车追寻者（专门寻找卡车司机的男性）同性伴侣关系相关的潜在风险在很大程度上仍不为人知。我们借鉴多种来源以及来自173名卡车司机和“卡车追寻者”的一手和二手数据，讨论了运输和追寻环境如何与网络论坛一道，共同为卡车司机及其性伴侣创造了一个助长风险的环境。研究结果指向一个难以捉摸但广泛的性网络，它跨越互联网和公路，利用卡车司机的流动性，连接不同的流行病学空间和人群。在高度男性化的卡车运输职业领域内对追寻行为的描述，为性健康研究增添了新的见解，鉴于卡车司机和卡车追寻者充满风险的性接触以及感染传播的可能性，这一点尤为重要。
