Well, my paper at the American Public Health Association conference went well last week in Philadelphia. It focused on drug use/abuse findings from the Bareback Project, presenting many of the findings shown in my previous posts to you guys here. People who attended my poster seemed to be interested in the findings and in the work, and I even had one gentleman from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration come to it and show some interest in my methamphetamine-related findings. The presentation was a good experience with nice feedback.
For this week's update, I thought I would shift my focus a bit and share some new information with you guys. This time around, I'm reporting some of the findings that I've come up with for the risk-related hypotheticals. As you may recall, during the interview you completed with us, one of the sections we covered asked what you thought you would do if you met a very attractive man online (sometimes he was said to be poz and sometimes the scenarios posed him as neg) and he wanted to have different kinds of sex with you. Here are the results for men who are HIV-negative.
From left to right, the blocks represent (1) performing oral sex on a man who is HIV-positive, (2) performing oral sex on a man who is HIV-negative, (3) receiving anal sex from a man who is HIV-positive, (4) receiving anal sex from a man who is HIV-negative, (5) performing anal sex on a man who is HIV-positive, and (6) performing anal sex on a man who is HIV-negative. Remember that, in all of the scenarios, the assumption posed was that the sex involved was condomless.
And here are the comparable findings for men who are HIV-positive. From left to right, the blocks show you (1) receiving oral sex from a poz man, (2) receiving oral sex from a man who is neg, (3) receiving anal sex from a man who is poz, (4) receiving anal sex from a man who is neg, (5) performing anal sex on a man who is poz, and (6) performing anal sex on a man who is neg. Again, please keep in mind that all of these sex acts refer specifically to condomless sex.
What do you think of the findings? Anything here strike you as particularly interesting or surprising?
Hugh
Hi Hugh, the findings are very interesting. I was surprised at the number or percentage of poz guys that would fuck a negative guy without a condom. I know these numbers are based on the guys that responded. Some may think the number is too high. I'm surprised it's not higher than what the results were. Perhaps it's my prejudice, but I thought more poz guys would have answered to fucking neg guys bareback than what the poz respondants reported. Maybe more are nowadays. Maybe it's the same. I don't know.
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