A reflective review on gay and bisexual men in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110545
Author(s):  
Eileen Y.H. Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Treatment As Prevention ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Male Sex Workers ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Living With Hiv

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Treatment as Prevention (TasP), and undetectability affect the experience of gay and bisexual men living with HIV. They also link ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ to raw sex and the use of recreational drugs as they relate to sexual practices among gay and bisexual men. From these insights, we can think about the complex connections between biomedical innovations in the field of HIV, sexual practices, subjectivity, pleasure, spaces, and technologies. This commentary offers a sociocultural perspective based on a study with 28 male sex workers (hereafter MSWs) on gay and bisexual men—mainly male sex workers— and their wives (Tongqi) in China.

Helping a Buddy Out

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
Tony Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Hooking Up ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Three Components

The men interviewed interpreted sex with men as compatible with heterosexuality and masculinity. What the author calls “bud-sex” is the way rural and small-town, white, straight men interpret or engage in sex in ways that reinforce their heterosexuality and masculinity. While the sex these men have with other men involves acts similar to those between gay and bisexual men, the meanings they attach to these acts differ greatly. Bud-sex has three components. First is hooking up with other masculine, white, and straight or bisexual men. Second is having secretive, nonromantic sex. And third is interpreting male-male sex as largely unthreatening to masculinity, heterosexuality, or marriage. Bud-sex, with its unique understandings of gender and sexual identity, reflects and reinforces the men’s embeddedness in straight culture. Sexual identity and masculinity depend on what sex acts mean, rather than on mere mechanics. Consequently, interpretations of sexual practices, not sexual practices in and of themselves, are crucially important. For the straight men interviewed, their interpretations both reflected and reinforced their embeddedness in straight culture. Bud-sex allows straight men to enjoy male-male sex without threatening either their heterosexuality or their masculinity.

scholarly journals Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062198957
Author(s):  
Gavin Brown ◽  
Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Living With Hiv

Recent biomedical innovations in the field of HIV prevention and treatment – namely PrEP, TasP, and ‘undetectability’ – have completely reshaped the experience of living with HIV, as well as the meanings of ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ in relation to sexual practices, leading to new forms of pleasure and sociality for gay and bisexual men in the Minority World. While human geographers have been slow to engage with the changing social dimensions brought by these innovations, scholars across the whole spectrum of the social sciences have been far more creative and responsive contributing to a critical understanding of what these processes entail in terms of subject formation as well as social and communal relations. This article proposes a distinctly geographical contribution to analysing and interpreting these biomedical technologies, exploring the ways that new spatialities and spatial relations emerge from their use and circulation. Our approach is based on provisional assemblage thinking as it offers the possibility to think the complex connections between biomedical innovations in the field of HIV, sexual practices, subjectivity, pleasure, spaces, and technologies, going beyond the subdisciplinary preoccupations and methodological reflexes of geographers focused primarily on either health or sexuality.

Trends in Belief That HIV Treatment Prevents Transmission Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia: Results of National Online Surveys 2013–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Martin Holt ◽  
James MacGibbon ◽  
Brandon Bear ◽  
Toby Lea ◽  
Johann Kolstee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
University Education ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Treatment As Prevention ◽  
Post Exposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

We have tracked belief in the effectiveness of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) among Australian gay and bisexual men (GBM) since 2013. National, online cross-sectional surveys of GBM were conducted every 2 years during 2013–2019. Trends and associations were analyzed using multivariate logistic regression. Data from 4,903 survey responses were included. Belief that HIV treatment prevents transmission increased from 2.6% in 2013 to 34.6% in 2019. Belief in the effectiveness of TasP was consistently higher among HIV-positive participants than other participants. In 2019, higher levels of belief in TasP were independently associated with university education, being HIV-positive, using pre-exposure prophylaxis, knowing more HIV-positive people, being recently diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and use of post-exposure prophylaxis. Belief that HIV treatment prevents transmission has increased substantially among Australian GBM, but remains concentrated among HIV-positive GBM, those who know HIV-positive people, and GBM who use antiretroviral-based prevention.

Health Service- and Provider-Level Factors Influencing Engagement in HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Care Among Male Sex Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 279-287
Author(s):  
Pablo K. Valente ◽  
Matthew J. Mimiaga ◽  
Philip A. Chan ◽  
Katie B. Biello
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Male Sex Workers ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis
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