Cruising for Sex Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Different Venues, Different Risks.Cruising for Sex This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Different Venues, Different Risks, Christian Grov, Jeffrey T. Parsons, and David S. Bimbi, Center for HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. Educational Studies and Training and CUNY CUNY City University of New York Investigating the different environments where men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM) is a term used mostly in the United States to classify men who engage in sex with other men, regardless of whether they self-identify as gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. (MSM MSM - Micronetics Standard MUMPS ) encounter their sex partners is critical to developing effective health education and prevention services. We administered a social-psychological survey at large-scale gay, lesbian, and bisexual events in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. between fall of 2003 and spring of 2004 (n = 1,258). Bars/clubs and the internet were the most popular venues for meeting sex partners in the three months prior to being surveyed. There were no racial or ethnic differences in men reporting finding partners at bathhouses, sex parties, sex clubs, public cruising, through current/former partners, or online. Men reporting partners from bars/clubs, through current/former partners, and online were younger on average than men reporting no partners from these venues. In contrast, men reporting partners from sex clubs were older on average than those who did not. Compared to HIV-negative men, HIV-positive men were more likely to report partners from bathhouses, commercial sex clubs, sex parties, and public cruising. Meanwhile, compared to non-barebackers, barebackers (those seeking intentional sex without condoms) were more likely to report sex partners from a sex party and from a commercial sex club. Men who met partners at sex parties, sex clubs, and bathhouses reported having experienced a greater number of STIs in their lifetimes, compared to men who met no partners at these venues. These men also reported a higher average number of sex partners in the prior year compared to the overall sample. Finally, men reporting partners from bars/clubs, bathhouses, private sex parties, and sex clubs were more likely to report recent club drug use, compared to men reporting no partners from these venues. Health education and prevention efforts may be more effective if they account for the environment for which they are administered. |
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