New Study Shows Black Gay Men Think Masculine Men are Less Likely to Have HIV

via KenyonFarrow.com, posted by Keith R. Green

Are we the kind of boys/men we want?

According to a new study by John’s Hopkins University, the answer is no.

The new study, conducted as a series of interviews with 35 young/teen Black men who have sex with men ages 18-24 shows that they:

1.Almost exclusively prefer romantic and sexual partners they perceive to be masculine.
2.Reluctant to allow a man they consider to be feminine to “top” them during sex.
3.Allow men they perceive to be more masculine to control the terms of what kind of sex happens, including condom use.
4.Consider masculine men to be less likely to have HIV, and feminine men to be more at risk.

According to the CDC’s last published incidence data from 2006, “among all black MSM, there were more new HIV infections (52%) among young black MSM (aged 13–29 years) than any other racial or ethnic age group of MSM in 2006. The number of new infections among young black MSM was nearly twice that of young white MSM and more than twice that of young Hispanic/Latino MSM.”

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