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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2012 Apr;16(3):774–784. doi: 10.1007/s10461-011-9965-3

Table 2.

Visual cues used by men to judge partner risk

General appearance Specific cues (indicators of risk in italics)

  • “attractive”

  • “looks clean”

  • “cute and chubby”

  • “looks like the type of girl that you’d love to take home to meet your mama”

  • “her presentation”

  • “My father told me if a girl’s hair ain’t combed, it means she’s not real clean.”

  • “her clothes were clean”

  • “dirty feet”/Has to “take care of her feet” [2 different men]

  • “…a woman that covers up. I don’t need you to have no Daisy Dukes on or a miniskirt up here.”

  • presence of visible sores