How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia. Issue 3 (1st March 2023)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia. Issue 3 (1st March 2023)
- Main Title:
- How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia
- Authors:
- Murphy, Dean
Ellard, Jeanne
Maher, Lisa
Saxton, Peter
Holt, Martin
Haire, Bridget
Grulich, Andrew
Bavinton, Benjamin
Philpot, Steven
Bourne, Adam
Storer, Daniel
Jin, Fengyi
Hammoud, Mohamed
Prestage, Garrett - Abstract:
- Abstract: Although many studies reported on decreases in sexual partner numbers among gay and bisexual-identifying men in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic, few studies have explored COVID-19 risk-reduction strategies. Drawing on free-text responses in an online survey (from April to July 2020), we describe the ways in which men sought to minimise the risk of COVID-19 in sexual encounters. Partner selection was an important strategy, in particular, restricting sex to men they already knew. Accounts also indicate how participants assessed risk from potential sex partners based on symptoms, residential location, recent travel, work role, and number of other sexual contacts. Less common were in situ practices, such as avoiding kissing. Participants' responses provide insight into creative community-based responses in the early months of the pandemic, some of which have resonances with early responses to HIV. Findings are discussed in relation to the concepts of 'lay epidemiology' and 'counterpublic health'. In particular, we examine how risks and health are experienced and valued in relation to local knowledges, meanings, and practices; and how practices emerge in response to dominant public health discourses that produce an idealised public based on (hetero)normative assumptions.
- Is Part Of:
- Culture, health & sexuality. Volume 25:Issue 3(2023)
- Journal:
- Culture, health & sexuality
- Issue:
- Volume 25:Issue 3(2023)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 25, Issue 3 (2023)
- Year:
- 2023
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2023-0025-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 271
- Page End:
- 286
- Publication Date:
- 2023-03-01
- Subjects:
- COVID-19 -- gay and bisexual men -- risk reduction -- lay epidemiology -- counterpublic health
Sex -- Periodicals
Sex -- Cross-cultural studies -- Periodicals
Sex -- Health aspects -- Periodicals
306.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tchs20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13691058.2022.2037717 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1369-1058
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 3491.669040
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 26123.xml