It’s a Quick Way to Get What You Want”: A Formative Exportation of HIV Risk Among Urban Massachusetts Men Who Have Sex with Men(MSM) Who Attend Sex Parties was an article retrieved from the AIDS Patient Care and STD Journal it was published in October of 2010. The authors of this article are Matthew J. Mimiaga, Sari L. Reisner, Sean Bland, Kevin Cranston, Deborah Isenberg, Maura A. Driscoll, Rodney VanDerwarker, and Kenneth Mayer. The main focus of the research was to investigate the HIV sexual risk behaviors of MSM who reported attending and/or hosting sex parties in Massachusetts in the past 12 months. Men who have sex with men at these sex parties are at greater risk of receiving HIV or an STI due to the fact there are other factors involved like alcohol, drugs, higher mean of anonymous partners, and unprotected sex(Migiaga, 2010). This study took place at the Fenway Health a health care and research facility. There were 40 preselected participants who completed an in depth, semi structured qualitative interview and an interviewer-administered comprehensive quantitative assessment series for a hour and a half. The study/interviews were conducted by one of two trained interviewers. That asked questions like… How would you define a sex party? When did you begin hosting/attending sex parties? Describe the sex parties you attended/hosted? Are condoms and lube available at these parties? What kind of sexual behaviors do men engage in and what HIV and STI risk behavior do you see happening? Do you participate or organize these parties? Any rules involved in your parties? While asking these questions they also assessed psychosocial factors like depression, anxiety, problematic alcohol used and history of drug or alcohol abuse, and the trauma history (like childhood sexual abuse). Results/conclusion of the study suggested that the men who attended these parties are at great risk of…
God may have not created a person to be homosexual or transgender but he did create everyone to make their own decisions. When a person grows up, they have the freedom of choice. A person can choose to move out, cut their hair and live upon the animals or even choose to kill him or herself. Therefore, a person can choose to be gay. I have a friend that is a lesbian. She has not always been that way. She told me that she could not continue to be hurt emotionally by males. My friend cut her hair off and started dressing like a boy. She has no signs of mental defect and she never admitted history of liking girls she made a decision to start liking females. This personal experience shows anybody can just choose to be what he or she wants to be.…
Usually when a person is said to be male or female, it is based on their sex assigned to them at birth, specific natal characteristics are used to define a person a boy or a girl. These biological features are not the only determining factor regarding gender identity. An individual’s psyche also has a significant role.…
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is a community based on celebrating individuality, sexuality, pride, diversity, love, and acceptance. Also known as the gay community, LGBT people believe in promoting LGBT rights and fighting for social justice. UCLA School of Law (Gates, 2011) conducted four national studies and two-state-level population based studies. The results determined that there are approximately nine million adults in the United States that identify themselves as LGBT. Prehistoric findings show that the community has been a target for discrimination and persecution from individuals and groups that practice homophobia since 11th century BCE. Although today’s century has proven to improve the…
I compare the transcending of parahilias from harmless to harmful with drug use. For drugs, marijuana can be a gateway drug as it opens up the social network of people that use it, which then eventually opens up the possibility of a new drug being passed around your new circle of friends and eventually to you. Along with the drug will come the behaviors to match. As people try new things, sometimes they aren’t satisfied for long and continue to chase the excitement of pushing the boundaries for themselves. As a fetish I can see how people are thrilled by these things. What happens when they become bored with their present thrills and look to find new things that make them as excited or more the ones before? They are adding people to their social network with like interests and most likely some of these people will be…
need to realize that no one “chooses” to be gay, or heterosexual, or any other sexuality. It’s a…
There are numerous amounts of sexuality preference amongst humans. The most common preference that people fail to accept is homosexuality. This is when a male is in love with a male, or female in love with a female. There is mental, physical, and psychological forms of…
Parrott, D. J., & Peterson, J. L. (2008). What motivates hate crimes based on sexual…
Environmental influences primarily the way we react to our caregiver, friends and family and during the development stage will have an effect on the way a person acts later on in life. When discussing biological foundations of gender identity; it is imperative not to emphasized physical sexual differentiation to the exclusion of socio- environmental factors. Although the best way of deciding sexual identity is still sex assignment at birth for long term gender identity…
The LGBT member self-identity is a women named Amanda White who I interviewed for this paper. Amanda is thirty three years old and has been a lesbian her whole life. Amanda says she can remember even far back as grade school when she remembers she was fascinated in a special way by a particular girl in her class. Amanda says her thoughts were not particularity sexual she was only eleven years old at the time. Amanda can say that she also remembers having thoughts about this girl and weather not if she thought she was cute. Amanda says she remembers when she would look at that girl that she did fell some kid of pleasure by doing so. Amanda said her self-identity was recognized at an early age of knowing she was a lesbian but did not know how to describe or even tell others about herself identity. It was the eighth grade when Amanda realized that she was not emotional and never had any sexual thoughts about any boy’s only girls. She had strong feelings for girls…
Information has been obtained about the client, Wendy, by means of a one on one interview. The client/counselor relationship and trust was established prior to the onset of the dialogue. The client verbalized her consent to take part in the sexual history interview and was advised that at any time she felt uncomfortable the interview would be halted or the subject could be changed. The counselor explained to the client, that the exchange between them was fully confidential and she was in a safe and secure environment to share what she what she felt comfortable to share. The counselor explained that the only occasion in which she would be obligated to break confidentiality was in the event the client expressed a desire to harm herself or others. The client accepted the terms of the interview and the interview detailing her sexual history was obtained.…
Throughout history, many individuals have struggled with finally coming out as an individual of the LGBTQ+ community. A lot of these individuals were scared of being discriminated against or not accepted. Also, many LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination and hatred almost every single day. These individuals are at a high risk of having depression, stress, anxiety, and suicidal behavior. Coming out to love ones is very difficult because you want their acceptance and approval. However, some love ones will not accept the fact of that “who you are!” So, therefore this passage will be based of the interview I had with my cousin, Ryan.…
It’s true that most individuals within the LGBTQ community have struggled with coming out, I was once one of them. Being raised a certain way, taught what was ‘normal’ and what’s not, can have an effect on a person who’s coming out. Coming out of the closet is a process, and some individuals do not realize that; you have to come out to yourself before you can come out to anyone else, then you come out to your friends and afterwards, your family.…
Saldanha, C. J., & Silver, R. (2011). Hormones and Behavior. Society of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology , 304-312.…
Due to the nature of the coming out process, there are fundamental challenges to learning the experiences of the LGBT population. The labels lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender as sexual identity labels present particular problems: A student may be able to articulate feelings of attraction to the same-sex, though are reluctant to adopt the label of lesbian, gay and/or bisexual (Rankin 2003).…