African-American Male Sexual Behavior and the Risk for HIV Infection

Wright, Jerome

doi:10.17730/humo.52.4.f3626683517418x2

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“…The Intersection of Sexual Identity, Behavior, and Attraction among African-American Men Sexual attraction, sexual desire, and sexual behavior do not always map on to each other among African-American men (Lichtenstein, 2000;Miller et al, 2005;Morton, 2007;Wright, 1993). Very little work examining the discordance between sexual behavior and sexual identity among African-American men has examined the role of sexual attraction as it relates to sexual behavior and identity.…”

Section: Bisexual Behavior and Sexual Identification Among African-ammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, same-gender sexual attraction, like same-gender sexual behavior, may not lead to gay or bisexual identity formation among African-American men . Morton (2007), working off conceptual models developed by Klein (1990) and Wright (1993), developed a framework to understand sexuality among African-American MSM by incorporating aspects of sexual identity, behavior, and attraction. In the model, Morton identified several groups of men who exhibit discordance in sexual identity, attraction, and behavior.…”

Section: Bisexual Behavior and Sexual Identification Among African-ammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study also showed significant differences between White and Black gay men in levels of self-homophobia (higher for Black men) and disclosure (lower for Black men). Researchers interested in examining bisexual behavior among African-American men have noted that these men perceive implicit expectations from their families to maintain a heterosexual appearance (Miller et al, 2005;Peterson, 1992;Wright, 1993). Alternatively, if bisexuallybehaving African-American men perceive support for a nonheterosexual identity from their family, they are more likely to actually label themselves as gay or bisexual compared to if they had not perceived support.…”

Section: Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impact of this threat led to the conceptualization of homosexuality as a mental health disorder in contemporary research on AfricanAmericans (Akbar, 1991; Cress-Welsing, as cited in Hemphill, 1991), though it has been excluded from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since the early 1970s. The African-American community's heteronormative values may affect bisexually-behaving African-American men in such a way that they perceive being gay or bisexual as abnormal and in strong conflict with the expectations of their families and ethnic communities (Doll & Beeker, 1996;Wright, 1993).…”

Section: Community Norms and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Dynamic-Ecological Model of Identity Formation and Conflict among Bisexually-Behaving African-American Men

Wilson

2008

Arch Sex Behav

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Understanding how ethnic, sexual, and masculine (ESM) identities form and possibly conflict among African-American men may be important to consider in explaining bisexual behavior in this population. It is proposed that the bisexual behavior among African-American who are primarily sexually attracted to other men may be a function of conflicting ESM identities. Comprehensively understanding the formation and conflict of ESM identities requires an examination of individuals, social contexts, and interactions between individuals and contexts. The current article presents a dynamic-ecological model of identity formation and conflict among ethnic minority men who have sex with men and uses the model to demonstrate how bisexual behavior among African-American men may be examined.

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Section: Bisexual Behavior and Sexual Identification Among African-ammentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bisexual Behavior and Sexual Identification Among African-ammentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Networkmentioning

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Section: Community Norms and Valuesmentioning

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A Dynamic-Ecological Model of Identity Formation and Conflict among Bisexually-Behaving African-American Men

Wilson

2008

Arch Sex Behav

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“…All categories are modified to include: "In attraction and/or sexual activity." For example community sex workers may take part in homosexual activity, without any homosexual attraction (Category 3), which is frequently the case for these individuals (Whitehead 1997;Wright 1993). Men in category 2 may have sex with women as a way to appear to outsiders as heterosexual, without feeling any real heterosexual attraction (Stokes et al 1998).…”

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MSM, the Streets, and Lockdown: Sexual Threat and Social Dominance in America

Morton

2007

J Afr Am St

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Explored is the sexual threat that African American men pose to White men and how social dominance is utilized to maximize control. Among those vulnerable are Black men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers, and those incarcerated. Illustrated are the lives of three African American men. Klein's sexual identity scale is adapted to capture sexual activity while incarcerated, and to discriminate between sexual identity, attraction, and activity, which may not intersect. Propositions for elimination of social dominance are considered, with a call for Black men to moderate the "masculine culture of concealment" and for Afrocentric programs for issues like HIV/AIDS.Keywords MSM . African American sexuality . HIV/AIDS . Sex work There are abundant ways that racism can be exhibited in a country. Inadequate funding to public schools in disenfranchised communities, failure to approve housing loans to minorities, and unevenness in healthcare are commonplace examples. Genocide-as exposed in Rwanda and the Sudan-are the most extreme forms of racism. But there are triggers of racism that may not always be in the consciousness of the oppressors. The perceived sexual threat of African American men by White men in the USA becomes a viable conduit of racism and continuing oppression into the twenty-first century. Utilized here are the theories of social identity, social comparison, and relative deprivation, while most prominently drawing on social dominance theory to understand the concept of sexual threat as a rationale for racism and oppression of African American men in the USA.

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Communicating about HIV in the southeast: Examination of prevention interventions for African American men who have sex with men

Myrick¹

2001

Journal of African American Men

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African-American Male Sexual Behavior and the Risk for HIV Infection

Cited by 33 publications

References 11 publications

A Dynamic-Ecological Model of Identity Formation and Conflict among Bisexually-Behaving African-American Men

A Dynamic-Ecological Model of Identity Formation and Conflict among Bisexually-Behaving African-American Men

MSM, the Streets, and Lockdown: Sexual Threat and Social Dominance in America

Communicating about HIV in the southeast: Examination of prevention interventions for African American men who have sex with men

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