To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex? An Online Focus Group Study of Sexual Decision Making Among Sexually Experienced and Inexperienced Gay and Bisexual Adolescent Men
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Adolescent gay and bisexual men (AGBM) are at disproportionately high risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, yet healthy sexuality and HIV prevention programs grounded in experiences unique to AGBM (e.g., coming out) are lacking, as is the formative work necessary to inform such programs. A richer understanding of factors informing AGBM's decisions to have or not have sex is needed. To fill this gap in the literature, we conducted qualitative and mixed-methods analyses of data collected in online focus groups with 75 ethnically diverse 14-18-year-old AGBM across the United States. Findings suggest that many reasons why AGBM choose to have or abstain from sex mirror those noted in the previous literature as influential for heterosexual adolescents (e.g., temptation, "horniness"). AGBM conveyed additional experiences/concerns that appeared unique to their sexual identity, particularly fears about pain during anal sex, and difficulties safely and accurately identifying same-sex partners. Both sexually experienced and inexperienced youth voiced reasons to wait or stop having sex. Sexually inexperienced youth said their motivations centered on wanting to avoid STIs and HIV, a desire to wait for the right partner, and the specialness of sex. On the other hand, sexually experienced AGBM said they stopped having sex if there was not an available partner they had interest in, or to improve their romantic relationship. Thus, while our findings suggest that there may be common factors across sexual identities that impact youth's sexual decision making, healthy sexuality programs for AGBM also need to address issues specific to being gay and bisexual.
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Online focus groups have so far been used mainly for hard-to-reach populations or where participants might feel embarrassed.
“This way of conducting focus groups has so far been used mainly for hard-to-reach populations or where participants might feel embarrassed. (DuBois et al. 2015).”
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The Methods (Procedures; page unavailable) describe online focus groups with gay and bisexual adolescent men recruited nationally. The Discussion (Limitations; page unavailable) says online recruitment broadened the sample and that anonymity may encourage participation by stigmatized groups. These passages support the examples of hard-to-reach or potentially uncomfortable participants, but not the claim that online focus groups have been used mainly for those purposes. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- DuBois, L. Z., Macapagal, K. R., Rivera, Z., Prescott, T. L., Ybarra, M. L., & Mustanski, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Center for Innovative Public Health Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mustanski, Brian
- Venue
- Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Published
- 2015-04-30
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2027-2040
- ISSN
- 0004-0002 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2800
- PMC
- PMC4561008
- OpenAlex
- W2035087802
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Archives of Sexual Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH096660)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Keywords
- sexual decision-making, sexual abstinence, HIV prevention, sexually transmitted infections, anal sex, partner identification, coming out, sexual identity, adolescent sexuality
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Humans, Male, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Partners, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, United States, Focus Groups, Homosexuality, Male, Internet, Young Adult, Reproductive Health
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Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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