Following sociological debates about the effects of governmentality in health promotion, this article examines the extent to which HIV prevention campaigns addressed to MSM in Spain are implicated in the construction of a social context where bareback sex is possible. However, there has been little analysis of the role of sexual health programmes in the understanding of bareback sex. Many studies have provided information about different individual, social and cultural factors for the deliberate assumption of risk in sex practices among men who have sex with other men (MSM).
These findings begin to further elucidate how health disparities among gay men occur, why this group are at high risk of body image issues, and how tribal identity assists in perpetuating problematic norms.
The role of apps, like Grindr, appears to be fundamental in perpetuating the norms and values associated with specific tribes, and construct a specific way for tribal identity to be experienced. Additionally, there appears to be a type of tribal agency that is afforded through app interaction, the community, and individual identity, and this is directly tied to perceived social visibility and belonging. Through 26 open-ended, semi-structured interviews conducted with men from inner city Brisbane, the results suggest that tribes are a normative product of Grindr’s digital infrastructure, a way for users to deeper express their gay identity and interests, and have a tendency to Other those outside of it. Specifically, this study examines how tribal classification is employed and experienced on the socio-spatial networking app, Grindr. Tribal identification is an important issue to investigate as there is evidence to suggest that active identity has a strong influence on risky health-related behaviours related to sexual practices and drug/alcohol use.
In this thesis, I investigate a series of subcultures within the gay community termed ‘tribes’. Potential implications for MSM's understandings of intimacy are recognized and discussed with reference to sexual script theory.
Only one of seven forms of intimacy, care (verbal), was associated with more interactions (i.e., likes and dislikes per 100,000 views), and there was no association with the number of views. We also tested if the presence of intimacy was associated with viewer interactions with videos (likes and dislikes) and number of views. Most forms of physical and verbal intimacy occurred before or during sex, with intimacy being least evident post-sex. At least one example of physical and verbal intimacy was present in the majority of videos (91% and 68% of videos, respectively). The current study examined the 220 most viewed dyadic scenes of MSM SEM videos for the presence of verbal intimacy (compliments, personal disclosure, and expressions of care) and physical intimacy (kissing, cuddling, affectionate touch, and genital touch before and after sex) between performers. However, little is known about how MSM SEM depicts intimacy between male performers. Sexually explicit material (SEM) featuring men who have sex with men (MSM) may be a source of information about intimacy in same-sex male relationships for MSM. The present study adds to the literature about the complexity of sexual-self-labels, and suggests that MSM SEM depictions of intimacy and sexual decision-making depend on the sexual role taken. Tops were shown taking the insertive role across all sexual acts and versatile performers (i.e., those taking both insertive and receptive roles) were rarely depicted. Tops enacted physical and psychological victimization more than bottoms, although these behaviors were rare. We found that tops and bottoms engaged in similar amounts of intimacy behaviors, but that bottoms were depicted as initiating sexual activity more than tops. We examined 220 of the most viewed online dyadic MSM SEM videos to determine whether performed verbal and physical intimacy, victimization, and sexual behaviors depended on the sexual role taken. For this to be the case, however, we would have to reliably observe different behavior in SEM performers acting as tops vs. In the present paper, we argue that gay men might draw on sexually explicit media (SEM) featuring men who have sex with men (MSM) to get information about how insertive sexual partners (“tops”) and receptive sexual partners (“bottoms”) typically behave. Heterosexual gender roles are not directly relevant to gay romantic relationships, but gay men often take on different relationship roles depending on their sexual roles.