Men who have sex with men's sexual relations with women in Bangladesh

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15099387
AutoresShaista Irshad Khan (0000-0002-7319-1333, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, autor de correspondencia), Nancy Hudson‐Rodd (Edith Cowan University), Sherry Sagger (0000-0002-4215-2091, Edith Cowan University), Sherry Saggers, Abbas Bhuiya (0000-0001-9032-8760, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research)
Año2005
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas159-169
Fecha de publicación2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691050412331321258
PMID16864195
OpenAlexW2146768255
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas9

Studies of men who have sex with men in South Asian countries including Bangladesh have tended to focus mainly on measuring male-to-male sexual risk behaviours, with less attention being given to understanding the nature and meaning of their sexual relations with women. This can result in missed opportunities for HIV/AIDS-related intervention. This paper, based on a small scale qualitative study, attempts to develop a cultural model to understand men who have sex with men's sexual relations with women within a gender and masculinity framework. Findings reveal that in Bangladesh men who have sex with men frequently surrender to societal pressures to marry, become husbands and shoulder fatherhood. This forces some women to become the silent sufferers of some of the negative consequences of hetero-normative patriarchal practice. Importantly, however, men who have sex with men consider sex with women a form of real sex within a framework of masculine sexual potency irrespective of preference, desire or eroticism. Thus, challenges exist to undertaking sexual health promotion and HIV/AIDS prevention in culturally sensitive ways

Developmental psychology · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Masculinity · Men who have sex with men · Normative · Political science · Population · Reproductive health · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Gerontology