Health, trust, or "just understood": Explicit and implicit condom decision-making processes among black, white, and interracial same-sex male couples

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 697-706

  Campbell, Chadwick K ^a   Gómez, Anu Manchikanti ^a   Dworkin, Shari ^b   Wilson, Patrick A ^c   Grisham, Kirk K ^c   McReynolds, Jaih ^a   Vielehr, Peter ^d   Hoff, Colleen ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black MSM; Condom negotiation; Gay couples; HIV risk; Safer sex; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONDOM; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TRUST; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BISEXUALITY; CONDOMS; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK; SAFE SEX; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TRUST;

EID: 84902492240     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-013-0146-5     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Adams, J., & Neville, S. (2009). Men who have sex with men account for nonuse of condoms. Qualitative Health Research, 19, 1669-1677.
2. Appleby, P., Miller, L., & Rothspan, S. (1999). The paradox of trust for male couple: When risking is a part of loving. Personal Relationships, 6, 81-93.
3. Beougher, S. C., Chakravarty, D., Garcia, C. C., Darbes, L. A., Neilands, T. B., & Hoff, C. C. (2012). Risks worth taking: Safety agreements among discordant gay couples. AIDS Care, 24, 1071-1077.
4. CDC. (2010). HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Retrieved February 28, 2012 from www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm.
5. CDC. (2011). HIV among African Americans. Retrieved February 28, 2012 from www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa.
6. CDC. (2012). HIV infections attributed to male-to-male sexual contact-Metropolitan statistical areas, United States and Puerto Rico, 2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 61, 962-966.
7. Cohen, M. S., & Gay, C. L. (2010). Treatment to prevent transmission of HIV-1. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 50, S85-S95.
8. Crawford, I. (2003). Sexual sensation seeking, reduced concern about HIV and sexual risk behavior among gay men in primary relationships. AIDS Care, 15, 513-524.
9. Crawford, J. M., Rodden, P., Kippax, S., & Van de Ven, P. (2001). Negotiated safety and other agreements between men in relationships: Risk practice redefined. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 12, 164-170.
10. Crosby, R., & Cates, W. (2012). Condom use: Still a sexual health staple. Sexual Health, 9, 1-3.
11. Crosby, R., Ricks, J., & Young, A. (2012). Condom migration resulting from circumcision, microbicides, and vaccines: Brief review and methodological considerations. Sexual Health, 9, 96-102.
12. Darbes, L., Chakravarty, D., Beougher, S., Neilands, T., & Hoff, C. (2012). Partner-provided social support influences choice of risk reduction strategies in gay male couples. AIDS and Behavior, 16, 159-167.
13. Davidovich, U., de Wit, J., Albrecht, N., Geskus, R., Stroebe, W., & Coutinho, R. (2001). Increase in the share of steady partners as a source of HIV infection: A 17-year study of seroconversion among gay men. AIDS, 15, 1303-1308.
14. Davidovich, U., de Wit, J. B. F., & Stroebe, W. (2000). Assessing sexual risk behaviour of young gay men in primary relationships: The incorporation of negotiated safety and negotiated safety compliance. AIDS, 14, 701-706.
15. Davidovich, U., de Wit, J. B. F., & Stroebe, W. (2004). Behavioral and cognitive barriers to safer sex between men in steady relationships: Implications for prevention strategies. AIDS Education and Prevention, 16, 304-314.
16. Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (2003). The landscape of qualitative research (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17. Eaton, L., Kalichman, S., Cain, D., Cherry, C., Stearns, H., & Amaral, C. (2007). Serosorting sexual partners and risk for HIV among men who have sex with men. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33, 479-485.
18. Eaton, L., Kalichman, S., & Cherry, C. (2010). Sexual partner selection and HIV risk among Black and White men who have sex with men. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 503-509.
19. Eisikovits, Z., & Koren, C. (2010). Approaches to and outcomes of dyadic interview analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 1642-1655.
20. Elford, J., Bolding, G., Maguire, M., & Sherr, L. (1999). Sexual risk behaviour among gay men in a relationship. AIDS, 13, 1407-1411.
21. Elwood, W., Greene, K., & Carter, K. (2003). Gentlemen don't speak: Communication norms and condom use in bathhouses. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 31, 277-297.
22. Frost, D., Stirratt, M., & Ouellette, S. (2008). Understanding why gay men seek HIV-seroconcordant partners: Intimacy and risk reduction motivations. Culture Health & Sexuality, 10, 513-527.
23. Golub, S. A., Kowalczyk, W., Weinberger, C., & Parsons, J. (2010). Pre-exposure prophylaxis and predicted condom use among high-risk men who have sex with men. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 54, 548-555.
24. Grisham, K., Wilson, P., Gomez, A., Chakravarty, D., Neilands, T. B., Campbell, C.,.. Hoff, C. C. (2012). Racialized risk: Fear and fatalism among Black MSM in intimate relationships. Paper presented at the International AIDS Conference, Washington, DC.
25. Harawa, N. T., Greenland, S., Bingham, T. A., Johnson, D. F., Cochran, S. D., & Cunningham, W. E. (2004). Associations of race/ethnicity with HIV prevalence and HIV-related behaviors among young men who have sex with men in 7 urban centers in the United States. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 35, 526-536.
26. Hoff, C. C. (2005). Negotiated safety agreements: Do they protect and how they protect. Focus, 20, 1-5.
27. Hoff, C. C., & Beougher, S. C. (2010). Sexual agreements among gay male couples. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 774-787.
28. Hoff, C. C., Beougher, S. C., Chakravarty, D., Darbes, L. A., & Neilands, T. B. (2010). Relationship characteristics and motivations behind agreements among gay male couples: Differences by agreement type and couple serostatus. AIDS Care, 22, 827-835.
29. Hoff, C. C., Pals, S., Purcell, D., Parsons, J., Halkitis, P., & Remien, R. (2006). Examining the role of partner status in an HIV prevention trial targeting HIV-positive gay and bisexual men: The Seropositive Urban Men Intervention Trial (SUMIT). AIDS and Behavior, 10, 637-648.
30. Hoff, C. C., Stall, R., Paul, J., Acree, M., Daigle, D., & Phillips, K. (1997). Differences in sexual behavior among HIV discordant and concordant gay men in primary relationships. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 14, 546-559.
31. Holt, M., Ellard, J., & de Wit, J. (2011). Are we prepared for biomedical HIV prevention? The case of pre-exposure prophylaxis. HIV Australia, 9, 12-14.
32. Kippax, S., Noble, J., Prestage, G., Crawford, J., Campbell, D., & Baxter, D. (1997). Sexual negotiation in the AIDS era: Negotiated safety revisited. AIDS, 11, 191-197.
33. Kippax, S., Slavin, S., Ellard, J., Hendry, O., Richters, J., & Grulich, A. (2003). Seroconversion in context. AIDS Care, 15, 839-852.
34. Lindlof, T. R., & Taylor, B. C. (2002). Qualitative communication research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
35. Mays, V. M., Cochran, S. D., & Zamudio, A. (2004). HIV prevention research: Are we meeting the needs of African American men who have sex with men? Journal of Black Psychology, 30, 78-105.
36. McInnes, D., Bradley, J., & Prestage, G. (2011). Responsibility, risk, and negotiation in the discourse of gay men's group sex. Culture Health & Sexuality, 13, 73-87.
37. McNeal, J. L. (1997). The association of idealization and intimacy factors with condom use in gay male couples. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 4, 437-451.
38. Millett, G. A., Flores, S. A., Peterson, J. L., & Bakeman, R. (2007). Explaining disparities in HIV infection among black and white men who have sex with men: A meta-analysis of HIV risk behaviors. AIDS, 21, 2083-2091.
39. Millett, G., Peterson, J., Wolitski, R., & Stall, R. (2006). Greater risk for HIV infection of black men who have sex with men: A critical literature review. American Journal of Public Health, 96, 1007-1019.
40. Moreau-Gruet, F., Jeannin, A., Dubois-Arber, F., & Spencer, B. (2001). Management of the risk of HIV infection in male homosexual couples. AIDS, 15, 1025-1035.
41. Nanín, J., Osubu, T., Walker, J. N., Powell, B., Powell, D., & Parsons, J. T. (2009). "HIV is still real": Perceptions of HIV testing and HIV prevention among Black men who have sex with men in New York City. American Journal of Men's Health, 3, 150-164.
42. Prestage, G., Mao, L., Kippax, S., Jin, F., Hurley, M., & Grulich, A. (2009). Use of viral load to negotiate condom use among gay men in Sydney, Australia. AIDS and Behavior, 13, 645-651.
43. Prestage, G., Mao, L., McGuigan, D., Crawford, J., Kippax, S., & Grulich, A. (2006). HIV risk and communication between regular partners in a cohort of HIV-negative gay men. AIDS Care, 18, 166-172.
44. Raymond, H., & McFarland, W. (2009). Racial mixing and HIV risk among men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior, 13, 630-637.
45. Semple, S., Patterson, T., & Grant, I. (2000). The sexual negotiation behavior of HIV-positive gay and bisexual men. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 934-937.
46. Strong, D. A., Bancroft, J., Carnes, L. A., Davis, L. A., & Kennedy, J. (2005). The impact of sexual arousal on sexual risk taking: A qualitative study. Journal of Sex Research, 42, 185-191.
47. Sullivan, P. S., Salazar, L., Buchbinder, S., & Sanchez, T. H. (2009). Estimating the proportion of HIV transmissions from main sex partners among men who have sex with men in five US cities. AIDS, 23, 1153-1162.
48. Theodore, P. S., Duran, R. E., Antoni, M. H., & Fernandez, M. I. (2004). Intimacy and sexual behavior among HIV-positive men-who-have-sex-with- men in primary relationships. AIDS and Behavior, 8, 321-331.
49. Van de Ven, P., Mao, L., Fogarty, A., Rawstorne, P., Crawford, J., & Prestage, G. (2005). Undetectable viral load is associated with sexual risk taking in HIV serodiscordant couples in Sydney. AIDS, 19, 179-184.
50. Varghese, B., Maher, J., Peterman, T. A., Branson, B. M., & Steketee, R. (2002). Reducing the risk of sexual HIV transmission: Quantifying the per-act risk for HIV on the bases of choice of partner, sex act, and condom use. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 29, 38-43.
51. Vernazza, P., Hirschel, B., Bernasconi, E., & Flepp, M. (2008). HIV-positive individuals without additional sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and on effective anti-retroviral therapy are sexually non-infectious. Bull des Medecins Suisses, 89, 165-169.
52. Wilson, D., Law, M., Grulich, A., Cooper, D., & Kaldor, J. (2008). Relation between HIV viral load and infectiousness: A model-based analysis. Lancet, 372, 314-320.
53. Wilson, P., Valera, P., Ventuneac, A., Balan, I., Rowe, M., & Carballo-Diéguez, A. (2009). Race-based sexual stereotyping and sexual partnering among men who use the Internet to identify other men for bareback sex. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 399-413.
54. Woods, D., & Fassnacht, C. (2007). Transana v2.23-MU (Version 2.2x). Madison, WI: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.