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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1999
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/SH17151
Abstract: Background This paper explores associations between use of party-and-play drugs, including crystal meth hetamine, and wellbeing among HIV positive gay and bisexual men (GBM) in Australia. This study considers whether use of drugs in a social or sex-based setting facilitates access to social and support networks, which may in turn support wellbeing. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of Australian people living with HIV (PLHIV) was conducted. There were 714 participants (79.7%) who identified as GBM. Differences between party-and-play drug users and non-users were examined using bivariate and multinomial logistic regressions. Mediation analysis examined the indirect effect of drug use on wellbeing via social connectedness and support. Results: One in three participants (29.7%) reported party-and-play drug use within the past 12 months. Only 5% reported regular use. There were no differences between users and non-users on self-reported measures of general health, wellbeing or general social support. Compared with non-users, party-and-play drug users reported higher levels of resilience and lower levels of perceived HIV-related stigma. This was associated with spending more time with other people living with HIV and friends in the gay and lesbian community. Conclusions: While party-and-play drug use poses risks to the health of GBM, the social contexts in which these drugs are used may provide wellbeing benefits, particularly for HIV-positive GBM who may be subject to HIV-related stigma in other settings. Further research is needed to determine whether drug-use facilitates access to social networks or if people with more active social ties are more likely to engage in drug use.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-12-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2014
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.959563
Abstract: Research and scholarship on sexuality has grown exponentially over the last 60 years but what is this 'sexuality' that so fascinates us. During those 60 years, three academic traditions or paradigms have emerged and evolved to provide that main ways we understand sexuality. These are: (1) sexology (2) sex research and (3) critical sexuality studies. These paradigms do not always agree at times, they are incommensurable in the picture of sexuality they paint. However, they each affect how sexuality is researched and written about, and how it is understood in the popular imagination. After discussing these paradigms, attention is focused on the contemporary challenges facing the third paradigm: critical sexuality studies. The contribution of sexology and sex research to these challenges is noted. Three key issues are discussed: the body how we commonly understand sexuality and the commodification of sexuality in late modernity.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.UROLOGY.2013.04.022
Abstract: To determine if heterosexual and nonheterosexual men treated for prostate cancer differ in diagnostic and treatment outcomes and in various measures of physical health, sexual function, and well being, before and after the treatment. Four hundred sixty self-identified heterosexual and 96 self-identified nonheterosexual men completed an anonymous online survey. The men in the 2 groups were then compared using logistic regressions that controlled for differences among countries. There were no significant differences in age at diagnosis for men in the 2 groups. However, Gleason scores at diagnosis were significantly lower for the nonheterosexual men (P = .02). There were no significant differences among men in the 2 groups in the proportion who receive different treatment modalities or in the incidence of urinary incontinence, who experience bone pain (as a marker of disease progression), who take antidepressants (as a proxy measure for mental health), or who experience erectile dysfunction after the treatment. However, nonheterosexual men rated the degree to which they were bothered by an inability to ejaculate significantly higher than did the heterosexual men (P = .04). This is the first set of findings from a survey that compares heterosexual and nonheterosexual men treated for prostate cancer. Although the groups were generally similar, nonheterosexual men might experience more intensive screening for disease, as indicated by lower Gleason scores at diagnosis. Nonheterosexual men appear more distressed by loss of ejaculation after prostatectomy.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1980
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-2014
DOI: 10.1002/SM2.32
Abstract: Prostate cancer (PCa) treatments are associated with a high incidence of erectile dysfunction (ED). Interventions to help men with iatrogenic ED have largely focused on penile tumescence adequate for vaginal penetration. Less research has been undertaken on sex practices other than penile/vaginal intercourse. The aim of this study was to explore forms of sexual practice engaged in by men following treatment for PCa. We focused in particular on anal intercourse (AI) as practiced by both nonheterosexual (i.e., gay-identified men and other men who have sex with men) and heterosexual men. We sought to determine how common AI was subsequent to PCa treatment and how flexible AI practitioners were in their modes (e.g., from insertive to receptive) when faced with iatrogenic ED. An international online survey was conducted in 2010–2011 of men treated for PCa, where participants (N = 558) were asked explicitly about their sexual practices before and after PCa treatment. The outcome measures were the numbers and percentages of men who practiced AI before and after PCa treatment as well as the percentage who changed AI practice after PCa treatment. Five hundred twenty-six men (90 nonheterosexual men 436 heterosexual men) answered questions on AI practices. A proportion of nonheterosexual (47%) and heterosexual men (7%) practiced AI following PCa treatment, and did so in all modes (insertive, receptive, and “versatile”). Many nonheterosexual men continued to be sexually active in the face of iatrogenic ED by shifting from the insertive to receptive modes. A few men, both heterosexual and nonheterosexual, adopted AI for the first time post-PCa treatment. Flexibility in sexual practice is possible for some men, both nonheterosexual and heterosexual, in the face of iatrogenic ED. Advising PCa patients of the possibilities of sexual strategies that include AI may help them in reestablishing a sex life that is not erection dependent.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-03-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-05-2016
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2016.1184314
Abstract: Same-sex marriage is a widely debated issue, including in Australia. This study used an online anonymous survey, with free-text responses, to investigate romantic and sexual relationships among Australian gay and bisexual men. We sought to identify what proportion of such men intended to marry their primary regular partner if marriage was made legally available to same-sex couples in Australia, as well as factors associated with intention or non-intention to marry. Most men in the s le did not intend to marry their primary regular partner. Even among men who considered themselves to be in a 'relationship' with their primary regular partner, less than half intended to marry him. However, many men who would not marry their current primary regular partner agreed that same-sex marriage should be available for gay and bisexual men in Australia. Reasons for intention to marry included a desire for social and legal equality, and ideas about marriage as a rite of passage, an expression of love and the most valued form of relationship in Australia. Those who did not intend to marry their primary regular partner offered a number of reasons, including that the nature of their relationship was incompatible with marriage, and reported a critical position towards marriage as a heteronormative institution.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1521/AEAP.2006.18.6.475
Abstract: A systematic method was used to elicit the names of the six most popular free Internet sites used by gay men and other men who have sex with men in New York City, to meet partners for "bareback" sex. An analysis of the sites characteristics shows that men can use mainstream Internet sites, gay-specific sites, and sex-focused sites free of charge to search for bareback sex partners, selecting by location, physical attributes, sexual mode, HIV-serostatus, and other characteristics. Many in iduals use these sites, producing the impression that bareback sex is not an oddity confined to just a few. The official language of the bareback sites associates bareback sex with masculinity and courage, prioritizing pleasure, freedom, choice, and intimacy over HIV-transmission prevention. The sites facilitate sexual experimentation and the expansion of bareback networks. Although some consider bareback sex to represent a failure of HIV prevention, this study suggests that harm reduction strategies may be viable within bareback networks.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1992
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1996
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 24-08-2018
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 1996
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-06-2017
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1198751
Abstract: Current international targets aim for 90% of people diagnosed with HIV to be on antiretroviral treatment (ART). This paper aims to identify sociodemographic and attitudinal factors associated with ART non-use over time in three s les of Australian people living with HIV (PLHIV). Data for this paper were derived from an Australian cross-sectional survey of PLHIV that was repeated at three different time points: 1997, 2003, and 2012. There were approximately 1000 respondents to each survey (n = 3042 in total). The survey included approximately 250 items related broadly to health and well-being, ART use, and attitudes towards ART use. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used. While the proportion of participants using ART increased between 1997 and 2012 (78.8-87.6%, p < .001), there was a decrease between 1997 and 2003 to 70.6% (p < .001). Factors linked to ART non-use remained steady over those 15 years. In all cohorts, people less likely to be using ART were younger and had a more recent diagnosis of HIV. In 2003 and 2012, people in full-time employment were less likely to be using ART, while those whose main source of income was a pension or social security were more likely to be using ART. Multivariate models showed that, at each time point, a belief in the health benefits of delayed ART uptake was associated with non-use. These findings suggest that there may be barriers to ART uptake that have persisted over time despite changes to clinical guidelines that now encourage early uptake.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2008
DOI: 10.1080/13691050701843098
Abstract: The decade since highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) arrived has been a time of change for gay men in the West. HIV incidence rates have been levelling off--and in some cities, increasing markedly--for the first time since the early years of the pandemic. New sexual subcultures have found expression, including Internet chat rooms, 'poz-only' sex parties, 'barebacking' and crystal meth hetamine use. These circumstances force a re-evaluation of HIV prevention targeting gay communities. We examine the antecedents of current HIV-prevention dilemmas in findings from a qualitative study of gay men who were personally and professionally engaged in HIV/AIDS in Sydney, Australia, in 1997-1998, immediately after the 'protease moment'. The men's lives were characterized by constant and difficult negotiation of gay subjectivities. They did not find a place of uniform belonging in the gay community rather, ambivalence--toward the gay community and HIV prevention--and fragmentation emerged as themes. Our findings suggest that by the late 1990s, the ethos of safe sex developed in the early HIV/AIDS period was no longer a unifying cultural value. We explore the conditions that led to this shift and the implications for HIV prevention in the 21st century.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 11-08-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-10-2014
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.961170
Abstract: In the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run, actor Michael York, relaxing in a fetching caftan after a day hunting 'Runners', logs-in to the 'Circuit', a de- and re-materialisation technology that allows those seeking sex to select partners. Logan's first candidate, a young man, is passed over with a smile. The second is co-star Jenny Agutter she is accepted and we join a sexual ride in the future. Online dating sites such as Gaydar® and RSVP® would seem to have a long way to go to achieve that, and Microsoft™ needs some fast apps development to get us there. Against this background, this paper examines some starting points in our fascination with technosex, long before the Internet, in books and magazines, the creative arts and other media and cultural forms. It focuses upon gay men's contribution to this fascination, and looks at the queering of heterosexuality and the part technology has played in that process. Online technologies are examined, particularly in relation to the 'publicisation' of sexual life and to shifts in sexual identity and practice related to changing processes of sexual objectification, self-objectification and subjectification. Finally, the transformation of sex into health and healthy sex is discussed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSXM.2015.12.026
Abstract: Decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and sexual difficulties are a recognized consequence of prostate cancer (PCa) treatment. However little is known about the experience of gay and bisexual (GB) men. HRQOL and psychosexual predictors of HRQOL were examined in GB and heterosexual men with PCa to inform targeted health information and support. One hundred twenty-four GB and 225 heterosexual men with PCa completed a range of validated psychosexual instruments. Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Prostate (FACT-P) was used to measure HRQOL, with validated psychosexual measures, and demographic and treatment variables used as predictors. GB men were significantly younger (64.25 years) than heterosexual men (71.54 years), less likely to be in an ongoing relationship, and more likely to have casual sexual partners. Compared with age-matched population norms, participants in both groups reported significantly lower sexual functioning and HRQOL, increased psychological distress, disruptions to dyadic sexual communication, and lower masculine self-esteem, sexual confidence, and sexual intimacy. In comparison with heterosexual men, GB men reported significantly lower HRQOL (P = .046), masculine self-esteem (P & .001), and satisfaction with treatment (P = .013) higher psychological distress (P = .005), cancer related distress (P & .001) and ejaculatory concern (P & .001) and higher sexual functioning (P & .001) and sexual confidence (P = .001). In regression analysis, psychological distress, cancer-related distress, masculine self-esteem, and satisfaction with treatment were predictors of HRQOL for GB men (R2Adj = .804) psychological distress and sexual confidence were predictors for heterosexual men (R2Adj = .690). These findings confirm differences between GB and heterosexual men in the impact of PCa on HRQOL across a range of domains, suggesting there is a need for GB targeted PCa information and support, to address the concerns of this “hidden population” in PCa care.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1111/J.1753-6405.2012.00828.X
Abstract: To examine the evidence for a national policy response to depression among gay, lesbian and other homosexually active people in Australia. A literature review using database searches on depression among non-heterosexual people then a web-based search of national policy investigating how mental health needs in this population are addressed in Australia. The literature review found that non-heterosexual people experience depression at higher rates, but the literature on interventions was sparse. The policy analysis found no mention of depression or the broader mental health needs of non-heterosexual people in key national mental health policy documents. These documents outline a policy approach for population groups with a higher prevalence of mental health problems, and stigma and discrimination are relevant associated factors, but only the National Suicide Strategy considers non-heterosexual people an 'at-risk group'. The results suggest that the evidence on higher rates of depression in non-heterosexual people is strong, but that this is not recognised in current national policy. Defining non-heterosexual people as an 'at-risk' group is appropriate, as is prioritising access to mental health services that are socially and culturally appropriate. Addressing homophobia as an associated factor would require a strategic policy approach across a range of sectors.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-06-2018
DOI: 10.1111/SOC4.12593
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-07-2009
DOI: 10.1057/STH.2009.1
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1981
DOI: 10.1007/BF01192110
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-12-1995
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-06-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-02-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1753-6405.1991.TB00332.X
Abstract: The relationship between sexuality, gay communities and class is potentially a very large problem for AIDS prevention. Class is a historical process which interacts with sexuality in ways still little understood. The complexities of modern class structures need full acknowledgement labour market groupings are internally ided, and cultural privilege and exclusion are important. A community survey in New South Wales of men who have sex with men shows the class selectiveness usual in such research. An exploration of correlates of labour market position, income and education finds few relationships with attachment to milieu except for involvement with gay organisations, and minor differences in broad measures of sexuality but some class differences in HIV risk-taking and some differences in exposure to information and in attitude. An exploration of several cases from a life-history study of working-class gay men shows the impact of class circumstance on the formation of sexual relationships and points to the accessibility of unlabelled homosexual activity in working-class milieux. Research on working-class education points to the importance of curriculum change in overcoming class exclusion, and is moving towards empowerment models of great relevance in AIDS education.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(03)02290-0
Abstract: Gender has become a major conceptual tool for understanding the evolving HIV pandemic globally. As such, it has provided a powerful way to see the structure of relations between men and women as central to various epidemics, and added weight to our understanding of HIV infection as not simply an in idual experience of disease. Yet, as a concept, gender has its blind spots. This paper argues that there are four issues central to our understanding of how the HIV pandemic moves and develops that are not necessarily best understood through an analysis that uses gender alone, namely: women's vulnerability, men's culpability, young people's sexual interests and marginalized sexual cultures. The paper proposes using sexuality as a framework for analysing these issues and seeks to utilise developments in critical sexuality research to add to gender as a way to increase the capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 1993
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1996
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-842X.1996.TB01043.X
Abstract: While guidelines stronglyrecommend dexamethasone in critical COVID-19, the optimal threshold to initiate corticosteroids in non-critically ill patients with COVID-19 remains unclear. Using data from a state-wide COVID-19 registry, we evaluated the effectiveness of early corticosteroids for preventing clinical deterioration among non-critically ill patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and receiving non-invasive oxygen therapy. This was a target trial using observational data from patients hospitalized for COVID-19 at 39 hospitals participating in the MI-COVID19 registry between March 16, 2020 and August 24, 2020. We studied the impact of corticosteroids initiated within 2 calendar days of hospitalization ("early steroids") versus no early steroids among non-ICU patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV2 receiving non-invasive supplemental oxygen therapy. Our primary outcome was a composite of in-hospital mortality, transfer to intensive care, and receipt of invasive mechanical ventilation. We used inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) and propensity score-weighted regression to measure the association of early steroids and outcomes. Among 1002 patients meeting study criteria, 231 (23.1%) received early steroids. After IPTW, to balance potential confounders between the treatment groups, early steroids were not associated with a decrease in the composite outcome (aOR 1.1, 95%CI 0.8-1.6) or in any components of the primary outcome. We found no evidence that early corticosteroid therapy prevents clinical deterioration among hospitalized non-critically ill COVID-19 patients receiving non-invasive oxygen therapy. Further studies are needed to determine the optimal threshold for initiating corticosteroids in this population.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-08-2014
Abstract: This commentary considers the key arguments of Janice Irvine's article as they pertain to Australia's sexuality researchers. It also discusses other sexuality research outside the USA and suggests that sexuality research may be a particular problem for the USA but some of the same issues apply elsewhere.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1111/JSM.13030
Abstract: With earlier prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis and an increased focus on survivorship, post-treatment sexual quality of life (QoL) has become increasingly important. Research and validated instruments for sexual QoL assessment based on heterosexual s les have limited applicability for men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM). We aimed to create a validated instrument for assessing sexual needs and concerns of MSM post-PCa treatment. Here we explore post-PCa treatment sexual concerns for a s le of MSM, as the first part of this multi-phase project. In idual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 MSM face-to-face or via Internet-based video conferencing. Participants were asked open-ended questions about their experiences of sexual QoL following PCa. Interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, uploaded to NVivo 8TM, and analyzed using qualitative methodology. We have conducted semi-structure qualitative interviews on 16 MSM who were treated for PCa. Focus was on post-treatment sexual concerns. The following themes were inductively derived: (i) erectile, urinary, ejaculation, and orgasmic dysfunctions (ii) challenges to intimate relationships and (iii) lack of MSM-specific oncological and psychosocial support for PCa survivorship. Sexual practices pre-treatment ranked in order of frequency were masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex, an ordering that prevailed post-treatment. Sexual QoL decreased with erectile, urinary, and ejaculation dysfunctions. Post-treatment orgasms were compromised. Some single men and men in non-monogamous relationships reported a loss of confidence or difficulty meeting other men post-treatment. Limited access to targeted oncological and psychosocial supports posed difficulties in coping with PCa for MSM. The negative impact on sexual QoL can be severe for MSM and requires targeted attention. Penile–vaginal intercourse and erectile function have been the primary focus of sexual research and rehabilitation for men with PCa, and do not adequately reflect the sexual practices of MSM. Our findings suggest that future research dedicated to MSM with PCa is needed to incorporate their sexual practices and preferences specifically into treatment decisions, and that targeted oncological and psychosocial support services are also warranted.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
Abstract: Gay men's use of the internet for social and sexual purposes is now so common that some predict an end to gay bars. In New York City, where this study took place, the use of the internet by men to meet other men seeking sex without condoms, called bareback sex, has created concerns among public health and gay community HIV/AIDS workers. This study of six popular bareback internet sites seeks to understand the nature of this new online sexual culture, initially by investigating the sites themselves through the methodology of cyber-cartography. That investigation suggested that masculinity as an analytic in gender studies might offer some value in understanding what was happening on these sites. Issues of race and ethnicity also emerged to challenge any singular notion of masculinity. This paper suggests that masculinity itself might need some recalibration, and that we may also need to rethink these sites as evolving ethical sexual cultures.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-1993
DOI: 10.1007/BF00993543
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2017.12.010
Abstract: Much research concerning drug use in the context of sexual activity among gay and bisexual men derives from public health scholarship. In this paper, we critically examine how the relationship between meth hetamine use and sexual risk practice is treated and understood in this body of research. While public health has made important contributions to establishing the link between meth hetamine use and sexual risk-taking, the precise nature of the relationship is not well defined. This creates space for ungrounded assumptions about meth hetamine use to take hold. We outline what appear to be two dominant interpretations of the meth hetamine/sexual practice relationship: the first proposes that meth hetamine has specific pharmacological properties which lead to sexual disinhibition, risky behaviour and poor health outcomes the second proposes that meth hetamine attracts men who are already inclined toward highly sexualised interactions and risky practice, and that such men are likely to engage in these practices with or without drugs. We suggest that both interpretations are problematic in that they in idualise and cast drug and sex practices as inherently risky and biopsychologically determined. We outline a more historically, socially and politically engaged way to understand meth hetamine use in the context of sexual activity by drawing on the concept of sex-based sociality and the ways in which gay and bisexual men may use meth hetamine and sex as social resources around which to build identities, establish relationships, participate in gay communities, and maximise pleasure while protecting themselves and others from harm.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 22-03-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-06-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.3402/IEE.V6.31658
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-10-2020
Abstract: This paper explores how women think about men’s bodies as objects of desire. It reports on one part of a larger qualitative study on men’s bodywork practices in contemporary Australia. Drawing on material from three focus groups with 24 Australian women of varying ages, sexual orientations and backgrounds, the paper considers how women experience, understand and reflect on their desire for men and men’s bodies. It also explores themes such as the connection women draw between what a man’s body looks like and what it can do, how attraction is experienced, the meaning making women engage in as they think about men and men’s bodies, and the broader politics of sexuality and objectification that inform their perceptions and ideas. These experiences are set against ideas in post-feminist thinking on women’s sexual desire and debates on their sexual empowerment. The paper argues that these women are grappling with tensions between their personal experiences of sexual objectification and a feminist ethics relating to their active and reflexive projects of sexuality.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-08-2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-01-2017
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2016.1273392
Abstract: In coining the term 'post-AIDS' some 20 years ago, I was noting the dissolution of a singular and unified experience of HIV and AIDS for gay communities that had been the case until that time. Not only were HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men having increasingly different experiences, but ergent trajectories were opening up. Since then, many other factors have come into play, for ex le age and generation the ascendancy of the biomedical and the technosexual and the supremacy of neoliberal politics (including sexual politics). Now, if gay men are to survive as such - and there is a question about this - are there larger issues than HIV and AIDS that ought to command our attention? Or do we need to rethink how we situate HIV and AIDS within the larger framework of gay men's health and wellbeing. This might be just a question of politics, or it could be a question of theory. Are we finally returning to the original gay liberation agenda of the eradication of difference, or simply being traduced (seduced?) by our success at intimate citizenship?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1990
DOI: 10.1177/144078339002600203
Abstract: Exploring the social dimension of sexuality is crucial to prevention strategies for AIDS. New developments in social theories of sexuality can inform empirical research. A survey of 535 gay and bisexual men in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory was designed in the light of practice-based analyses of gender and sexuality. Anal intercourse without condoms ranks high in physical and emotional significance though it is known to be relatively unsafe with regard to transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. This practice shows few statistical connections to variables describing social structure, but is linked to variables describing gay social milieu attachment, patterns of sexuality, and awareness of the situation created by the AIDS crisis. Potentially dangerous anal practice is more common within established relationships and especially common with men who describe themselves as 'monogamous'. This creates dilemmas for prevention strategy. Connections between social variables and the frequency of unprotected anal intercourse point to the importance of informed social support for safer sex. Prevention strategy needs to emphasise collective action, not just personal change.
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