Human Sexual Contact Network as a Bipartite Graph

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  • 19 November 2001
Abstract
A simple model to encapsulate the essential growth properties of \emph{the web of human sexual contacts} is presented. In the model only heterosexual connection is considered and represented by a random growing bipartite graph where both male-female contact networks grow simultaneously. The time evolution of the model is analysed by a rate equation approach leading to confirm that the male and the female sexual contact distributions decay as power laws the exponents depending on the influx and the charisma of males and females.

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