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Pleasure, Affection, and Love Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) versus MSM of Other Races: Countering Dehumanizing Stereotypes via Cross-Race Comparisons of Reported Sexual Experience at Last Sexual Event

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Black men have historically been stereotyped as hedonistic, aggressive, and animalistic in their sexual interactions. This study sought to describe pleasure, affection, and love experienced by Black men who have sex with men (MSM) during their last male-partnered sexual event and to examine differences relative to White, Latino, and Asian MSM. A total of 21,696 (793 Black, 18,905 White, 1,451 Latino, and 547 Asian) U.S. men ages 18–87 (M Age = 39) were recruited from social/sexual networking sites targeting MSM in 2010–2011. Participants reported multiple dimensions of sexual experience (pleasure, affection, and love) occurring at their last male-partnered sexual event, partner relationship, and sociodemographic characteristics. Across relationship categories, a sizeable percentage of Black MSM reported pleasure (72–87  % orgasmed, 57–82 % experienced high subjective pleasure) and affection (70–91 % kissed, 47–90 % cuddled). Love was primarily reported for events involving main partners (felt love for partner: 96 %; felt loved by partner: 97 %; verbalized love to partner: 89 %). Latent class analysis with MSM of all races, adjusting for partner relationship and sociodemographic characteristics, revealed three distinct profiles of sexual experience: affection and love (Class 1); affection in the absence of love (Class 2); and neither affection nor love (Class 3). Pleasure was probable across profiles. Some racial differences in profile probability were present, but no overall pattern emerged. Contrary to Black male stereotypes, Black MSM commonly reported pleasure, affection, and love at their last male-partnered sexual event and did not show a meaningful pattern of difference from other-race MSM in their likelihood of experiencing all three.

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  1. Unlike the narrow and stigmatizing representations of DL in popular media, the DL can also be conceptualized as an adaptive and liberating identity or lifestyle: The DL “has always acted as an imaginative and physical space where blacks create, produce, and pronounce their own meaning outside of surveillance” (McCune, 2014, p. 8) and for Black MSM may offer a “positionality” from which they are able to understand their sexuality and navigate sexual experiences with other men (McCune, 2014). Some Black men do not see the DL as an effort to conceal their sexual behavior with men but rather an opportunity for self-definition as MSM outside of what they perceive to be White conceptions of gayness and associated feminine stereotypes (Han et al., 2014).

  2. Website names were intentionally withheld to protect the privacy of sites and site users.

  3. A 1-year cutoff for occurrence of last sexual event has commonly been employed for event-level, survey-based sexuality studies with MSM (e.g., Calabrese, Rosenberger, Schick, Novak, & Reece, 2013; Grov, Hirshfield, Remien, Humberstone, & Chiasson, 2013; Pines et al., 2014; Sandfort, Yi, Knox, & Reddy, 2013).

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This research was supported by the OLB Research Institute and Award Numbers K01MH103080, T32MH020031, and P30MH062294 from the National Institute of Mental Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health or the National Institutes of Health. The authors wish to thank Dr. Russell Barbour, Dr. Trace Kershaw, and the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core for their consultation on statistical analyses. The authors are also grateful to participants for their generous contribution to the study.

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Calabrese, S.K., Rosenberger, J.G., Schick, V.R. et al. Pleasure, Affection, and Love Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) versus MSM of Other Races: Countering Dehumanizing Stereotypes via Cross-Race Comparisons of Reported Sexual Experience at Last Sexual Event. Arch Sex Behav 44, 2001–2014 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0405-0

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