Community connection is associated with lower psychological distress for sexual minority women who view community connection positively
We examined factors associated with sexual minority women's evaluations of belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in Australia, and assessed whether a positive view of community participation impacted levels of psychological distress. 2424 cisgender sexual minority women participated in a national, online, cross-sectional survey of LGBTIQ adult Australians' health and well-being. Multivariable regression analyses were conducted to investigate sociodemographic factors associated with sexual minority women's belonging to the LGBTQ community, feelings towards community connection, and...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gene Lim Adam Bourne Adam Hill Ruth McNair Anthony Lyons Natalie Amos Source Type: research
Community connection is associated with lower psychological distress for sexual minority women who view community connection positively
We examined factors associated with sexual minority women's evaluations of belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in Australia, and assessed whether a positive view of community participation impacted levels of psychological distress. 2424 cisgender sexual minority women participated in a national, online, cross-sectional survey of LGBTIQ adult Australians' health and well-being. Multivariable regression analyses were conducted to investigate sociodemographic factors associated with sexual minority women's belonging to the LGBTQ community, feelings towards community connection, and...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gene Lim Adam Bourne Adam Hill Ruth McNair Anthony Lyons Natalie Amos Source Type: research
Community connection is associated with lower psychological distress for sexual minority women who view community connection positively
We examined factors associated with sexual minority women's evaluations of belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in Australia, and assessed whether a positive view of community participation impacted levels of psychological distress. 2424 cisgender sexual minority women participated in a national, online, cross-sectional survey of LGBTIQ adult Australians' health and well-being. Multivariable regression analyses were conducted to investigate sociodemographic factors associated with sexual minority women's belonging to the LGBTQ community, feelings towards community connection, and...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gene Lim Adam Bourne Adam Hill Ruth McNair Anthony Lyons Natalie Amos Source Type: research
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men's chemsex practices
This article uses an object-oriented approach-following the use and flow of social apps, syringes and antiretroviral therapy (ART)-to analyse gay and bisexual Taiwanese men's drug practices. Interview data from fourteen men are used to articulate how objects were brought into gay and bisexual men's chemsex repertoire in ways that shaped individuals' safe-sex communication, intimacy maintenance and stigma negotiation. An object-oriented approach scrutinises risk, pleasure and identities in assemblages of the human and nonhuman, and can help identify new opportunities for implementing health promotion interventions and polic...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Poyao Huang Sih-Cheng Sean Du Stephane Wen-Wei Ku Chia-Wen Li Adam Bourne Carol Strong Source Type: research
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis
This article applies queer critical discourse analysis to a corpus of 121 TikToks sampled via the TikTok algorithm, coded and refined into three overarching content categories: 'what makes a PrEP user?', 'what is PrEP as a drug?', and 'sexual health and HIV'. Examples from within these categories reveal four underlying discursive themes: (1) stigmatisation of HIV as a 'gay disease' with a poor prognosis; (2) stigmatisation of gay men as unsafe, high-risk and untrustworthy; (3) stigmatisation of PrEP as increasing 'unsafe' sexual practices; (4) poor healthcare and education gay men and other beneficiaries of PrEP. These the...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joseph Lewis G J Melendez-Torres Source Type: research
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men's chemsex practices
This article uses an object-oriented approach-following the use and flow of social apps, syringes and antiretroviral therapy (ART)-to analyse gay and bisexual Taiwanese men's drug practices. Interview data from fourteen men are used to articulate how objects were brought into gay and bisexual men's chemsex repertoire in ways that shaped individuals' safe-sex communication, intimacy maintenance and stigma negotiation. An object-oriented approach scrutinises risk, pleasure and identities in assemblages of the human and nonhuman, and can help identify new opportunities for implementing health promotion interventions and polic...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Poyao Huang Sih-Cheng Sean Du Stephane Wen-Wei Ku Chia-Wen Li Adam Bourne Carol Strong Source Type: research
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis
This article applies queer critical discourse analysis to a corpus of 121 TikToks sampled via the TikTok algorithm, coded and refined into three overarching content categories: 'what makes a PrEP user?', 'what is PrEP as a drug?', and 'sexual health and HIV'. Examples from within these categories reveal four underlying discursive themes: (1) stigmatisation of HIV as a 'gay disease' with a poor prognosis; (2) stigmatisation of gay men as unsafe, high-risk and untrustworthy; (3) stigmatisation of PrEP as increasing 'unsafe' sexual practices; (4) poor healthcare and education gay men and other beneficiaries of PrEP. These the...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joseph Lewis G J Melendez-Torres Source Type: research
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men's chemsex practices
This article uses an object-oriented approach-following the use and flow of social apps, syringes and antiretroviral therapy (ART)-to analyse gay and bisexual Taiwanese men's drug practices. Interview data from fourteen men are used to articulate how objects were brought into gay and bisexual men's chemsex repertoire in ways that shaped individuals' safe-sex communication, intimacy maintenance and stigma negotiation. An object-oriented approach scrutinises risk, pleasure and identities in assemblages of the human and nonhuman, and can help identify new opportunities for implementing health promotion interventions and polic...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Poyao Huang Sih-Cheng Sean Du Stephane Wen-Wei Ku Chia-Wen Li Adam Bourne Carol Strong Source Type: research
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis
This article applies queer critical discourse analysis to a corpus of 121 TikToks sampled via the TikTok algorithm, coded and refined into three overarching content categories: 'what makes a PrEP user?', 'what is PrEP as a drug?', and 'sexual health and HIV'. Examples from within these categories reveal four underlying discursive themes: (1) stigmatisation of HIV as a 'gay disease' with a poor prognosis; (2) stigmatisation of gay men as unsafe, high-risk and untrustworthy; (3) stigmatisation of PrEP as increasing 'unsafe' sexual practices; (4) poor healthcare and education gay men and other beneficiaries of PrEP. These the...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joseph Lewis G J Melendez-Torres Source Type: research
An object-oriented analysis of social apps, syringes and ARTs within gay Taiwanese men's chemsex practices
This article uses an object-oriented approach-following the use and flow of social apps, syringes and antiretroviral therapy (ART)-to analyse gay and bisexual Taiwanese men's drug practices. Interview data from fourteen men are used to articulate how objects were brought into gay and bisexual men's chemsex repertoire in ways that shaped individuals' safe-sex communication, intimacy maintenance and stigma negotiation. An object-oriented approach scrutinises risk, pleasure and identities in assemblages of the human and nonhuman, and can help identify new opportunities for implementing health promotion interventions and polic...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Poyao Huang Sih-Cheng Sean Du Stephane Wen-Wei Ku Chia-Wen Li Adam Bourne Carol Strong Source Type: research
Prep-Tok: a queer critical discourse analysis of TikToks regarding HIV-related pre-exposure prophylaxis
This article applies queer critical discourse analysis to a corpus of 121 TikToks sampled via the TikTok algorithm, coded and refined into three overarching content categories: 'what makes a PrEP user?', 'what is PrEP as a drug?', and 'sexual health and HIV'. Examples from within these categories reveal four underlying discursive themes: (1) stigmatisation of HIV as a 'gay disease' with a poor prognosis; (2) stigmatisation of gay men as unsafe, high-risk and untrustworthy; (3) stigmatisation of PrEP as increasing 'unsafe' sexual practices; (4) poor healthcare and education gay men and other beneficiaries of PrEP. These the...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joseph Lewis G J Melendez-Torres Source Type: research
'My safety depends on everyone else feeling safe and good': emotion work among transgender and gender diverse Texans
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Jul 10:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2231058. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmotion work is a regulatory method used to change the degree or quality of one's own or another's emotions. Among sexual minority people, emotion work is a regulatory method utilised to maximise identity expression while maintaining harmony in interpersonal connections. However, little is known about the utilisation of emotion work among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. We sought to address this gap by qualitatively exploring emotion work among members of this population. We conducted semi-structured focus grou...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jacob Goffnett Kelly L Clary Rylee Kitchen Angela Matijczak Marley King Source Type: research
'My safety depends on everyone else feeling safe and good': emotion work among transgender and gender diverse Texans
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Jul 10:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2231058. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmotion work is a regulatory method used to change the degree or quality of one's own or another's emotions. Among sexual minority people, emotion work is a regulatory method utilised to maximise identity expression while maintaining harmony in interpersonal connections. However, little is known about the utilisation of emotion work among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. We sought to address this gap by qualitatively exploring emotion work among members of this population. We conducted semi-structured focus grou...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jacob Goffnett Kelly L Clary Rylee Kitchen Angela Matijczak Marley King Source Type: research
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Jul 4:1-14. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2226190. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe last literature review on swingers was written by Richard J. Jenks in 1998, and for the past 25 years, no review has been published with a focus solely this group. Some individual studies have analysed swinging together with other consensual non-monogamies, while other research has looked at swinging in the context of sexual health. This paper presents early and recent literature on swinging, highlighting some of the directions taken in swinger research, and addressing the challenges of finding a theoretical framework su...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Margaret J Vaynman Source Type: research
Swingers and swinging: a critical review of early and current literature and theory
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Jul 4:1-14. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2226190. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe last literature review on swingers was written by Richard J. Jenks in 1998, and for the past 25 years, no review has been published with a focus solely this group. Some individual studies have analysed swinging together with other consensual non-monogamies, while other research has looked at swinging in the context of sexual health. This paper presents early and recent literature on swinging, highlighting some of the directions taken in swinger research, and addressing the challenges of finding a theoretical framework su...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Margaret J Vaynman Source Type: research
