Check it - Some of the most exciting research at the intersection of young adults, social media and sexual health is coming out of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Sex Lab. They are the researchers behind the Virtual Love Study, recently published data in AIDS and Behavior confirming the importance of love in young men's sexual lives.

The Sex Lab, headed up by the one-and-only Jose Bauermeister, PhD, has a record 4 abstracts accepted for this year's conference in San Francisco.

Here they are:

Rachael Strecher,  2nd year MPH student, is talking about a new program - Detroit Youth Passages - that uses an ethnographic method to explore and discuss the risks and opportunities for sexual health promotion for youth using online transactional sex-seeking spaces.

Chrysta Meadowbrook and Tiffany Veinot are reporting on a research project, the Young Men's Study with young men who have sex with men examining relationships between online (1) HIV/AIDS information use, relevance, and social networks and (2) HIV testing and risk-taking behaviors.

Laura Thomas, 2nd year dual degree student, reports back from her research that young men who have sex with men and young gay men are lacking in digital youth-centered sex education.

Senior researchers, Andrew Hickok and Jose Bauermeister, two glass-half full guys, have rigorous data showing an optimistic bias for safe sex among young men who have sex with men seeking partners online.

Meet these new and veteran researchers in person in April at Sex::Tech 2012. Register today!