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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Bisexual men"”.
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Sexual Arousal and Mental Health in Bisexual Men
There is variation in the extent to which bisexual men get sexually aroused to both sexes. A different line of research suggests that they also vary in how vulnerable they are to mental health problems, compared to gay and straight men. The present study sought to investigate whether variation in …
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Avoiding Stigma by Doing Sexuality: A Qualitative Study of Self-identified Bisexual Men and Women
Bisexual individuals face challenges when disclosing their sexuality to others. Few sociological studies have addressed how, why, and when bisexual individuals "come out" about their sexuality. In particular, little research has explored how bisexual men and women use gender to convey messages of …
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Biomedical HIV prevention: Implications for the sexual practices and relationships of gay and bisexual men
… decrease HIV incidence among gay and bisexual men (GBM), but understanding its relationships with sexual, relational and community contexts is required to maximise effectiveness. The objective of this thesis is to examine emerging biomedical HIV prevention strategies in terms of …
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Brother, Help Thyself: The Construction of a Gay and Bisexual Men's Health Movement before HIV/AIDS
This project traces the formation and development of a gay and bisexual men’s health movement before HIV/AIDS (1981-1996). The project is an effort to consider the lives and contributions of gay and bisexual men between the Second World War and the HIV/AIDS period. The creation and management of …
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"It's about just staying focused" : how African American gay and bisexual men persist at a predominately white institution
… of that population, African American gay and bisexual men, used to successfully persist at a predominately White educational institution (PWI) in the face of racism, heterosexism and homophobia. The results suggest that the reasons these students initially chose to attend the PWI were …
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Stigma in the Post Crisis Age: External Barriers to Accessing HIV Treatment, Internalized Trauma, and Strategies of Support in Orlando, Florida
… was unable to transmit the HIV virus. While treatment and prevention options are advancing, this advancement may not translate directly into reduced stigma, which is produced and reproduced by external barriers to accessing healthcare, and internalized by HIV positive people as emotional trauma. …
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Disparities in Mental Health, Physical Health, and Substance Use Across Sexual Orientations in Adults
… is important for the design and implementation of public health interventions to improve health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. While prior studies have shown LGB individuals have elevated risk of poor mental health, poor physical health, and substance use, existing …
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Gender, Sexuality, and Status Foundations of Inequality: Effects of Earnings, Financial Satisfaction, and Perceived Financial Status
… in economic outcomes that preference white men while devaluing women and non-whites. Sexuality is an additional social status that has been shown to interact with gender through heterosexism to create lower earnings for gay men, relative to heterosexual men, but higher earnings for lesbians, …
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The psychosocial effects of rape on heterosexual and homosexual men
… effects of rape on heterosexual and homosexual men. It was hypothesized that 1) non-closeted homosexual men would have less symptomology and more resilience than closeted homosexual men and heterosexual men; 2) the more protective factors a man had, the less symptomology he would display and the …
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Technosexuality: Technology, Sexuality, and Convergence
<p>Convergence refers to a phenomenon where multiple communication technologies are integrated into a single device. Technosexuality proposes a convergence between sexuality as a social phenomenon and technologically mediated modes of interpersonal communication and sexual information consumption. …
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“I Knew These Marvelous People”: Gay Men’s Experiences of Long-Term HIV/AIDS Survival
<p>The gay and bisexual men who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS before the pharmaceutical breakthroughs of the mid-1990s were given what was expected to be a death sentence. Instead, the majority of those who began the newly available treatments outlived not just their initial prognoses but their …
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An exploratory study of the psychosocial needs of homosexual AIDS patients
… infected in the First World are homosexual and bisexual men, and intravenous drug users. The study combined a literature review and a case example to explore psychosocial needs of homosexual AIDS patients with a view to presenting recommendations for mental health practitioners to help alleviate …
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Beyond the prototypical: Developing a behavioral screening tool of same-gender male intimate partner violence.
… the top three health issues impacting gay and bisexual males. Previous studies of IPV prevalence in this population result in epidemiological inconsistencies largely due to unreliable measurement. Behavioral tools employed in research and in clinical settings often apply a heterosexist and …
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Epidemiologic synergy - the contribution of heterosexual HIV transmission to the spread of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa
… be a driver of HIV infections that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM)? Noting the disproportionately high HIV prevalence among MSM across a variety of settings, this subpopulation is often considered as sources of new infections, overlooking the possibility of HIV transmission from the …
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The experiences of low-risk and HIV anxious gay men who are using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): A qualitative study
… the experiences of low-risk, HIV anxious gay and bisexual men (GBM) who use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and the impact PrEP use has on their sexual behaviour and experience of anxiety. Background: PrEP has demonstrated significant protection against HIV infection among GBM who are …
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Governmentality/Animacy/Mythology: A Biopolitical and Rhetorical Mosaic of HIV Stigma in a Time of PrEP-aration
… lack of education, and poor access to treatment and healthcare compound the epidemic across the world, the endemic in the industrialized west faces specific communication-based challenges to slowing the spread of HIV. Now classified as a "chronic manageable condition", an HIV diagnosis is no …
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The impact of Self-Generated Images in online pornography
… groups of younger adults, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) and males, and may be becoming the norm. Free PornTube websites are predominately used; but also, increasingly, social network sites (SNS’s) and messaging/image sharing apps. Most adults use SGI’s safely for sexual …
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Whom do we study: An analysis of diversity in the community psychology literature from 1973 to 2007
… a member check yielded an 87% percent agreement with generated codes by 28 authors whose studies were coded as part of the study. Results indicated that a significant portion of community psychology articles have historically included diversity. Inclusion varied drastically between both …
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