Esta investigación buscó establecer el significado que tienen los hombres homosexuales sobre sus comportamientos de riesgo de contraer sexualmente el VIH/SIDA. Con un enfoque cualitativo, se entrevistó a 19 hombres homosexuales de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia. Se utilizó la teoría fundamentada, partiendo del interaccionismo simbólico, para buscar la relación entre los significados y los comportamientos. Se desarrollaron procesos de codificación, categorización e interpretación. Los resultados muestran que (a) la clandestinidad de los encuentros sexuales hace que el riesgo se asuma como una forma de vivir el afecto y (b) existe una asociación inversa entre el afecto y el riesgo asumido: a mayor presencia de afecto mayor evitación del riesgo, consecuente con la información sobre prevención, y a mayor ausencia de afecto mayor disposición al riesgo, buscando el reconocimiento y negando la información sobre protección. Palabras clave: homosexualidad, VIH/SIDA, exposición al riesgo, autonomía, afecto This research aimed to establish the meaning that risk behaviors have for homosexual men in relation to contracting HIV/AIDS through sexual contact. Adopting a qualitative approach, 19 interviews were held with homosexual men residing in the city of Medellín, Colombia. Grounded theory, from the perspective of symbolic interactionism, was used to find the relationship between meanings and behaviors. Coding, categorization, and interpretation processes were conducted. Results show that (a) the clandestine nature of sexual encounters causes risk to be regarded as a way of experiencing affection and that (b) there is an inverse relationship between affection and risk: the stronger the affection the greater the risk avoidance, informed by prevention recommendations; the weaker the affection the greater the proneness to take risks, searching for recognition and denying the information about protective measures.
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