Sex markets and sexual opportunity structures of behaviorally bisexual latino men in the urban metropolis of new york city.
Sex markets and sexual opportunity structures of behaviorally bisexual latino men in the urban metropolis of new york city.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-013-0072-6
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发表时间：
2014-04
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Wilson PA
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作者：
Garcia J;Muñoz-Laboy M;Parker R;Wilson PA
性市场（在空间和文化上有界的舞台），塑造了拉丁美洲男性之间的双性恋行为已被用作一个确定性的概念，没有足够的关注个人的能力，使自主决策在这样的舞台。我们使用性机会结构的概念来研究性市场的理论，以探讨纽约市的城市大都会中的行为双性恋拉丁裔男性如何在性地理、文化意义系统、性脚本和社会制度中配置他们的双性恋行为。在纽约市对60名双性恋拉丁裔男性进行了深入采访，我们首先描述和分析了构成性地理的场所，这些场所促进和阻碍了性互动。这也使人们在决策方面有一定程度的自主权，因为男人在城市的性生活中到处旅行，有时甚至设法拒绝基督教强加的规范。我们探讨了一些文化意义系统和社会机构，规范性市场和影响个人决策。秘密和自由裁量权由家庭、男子气概、移民和宗教所规范，只是部分地塑造了性行为和性关系。这些因素在两性性市场的“平衡”中创造了一种流动，在这种流动中，社会文化经济结构不断地与人类的能动性相互作用。这篇文章有助于文献确定动态空间的性健康干预措施，借鉴个人机构和赋权。
Sex markets (the spatially and culturally bounded arenas) that shape bisexual behavior among Latino men have been utilized as a deterministic concept without a sufficient focus on the ability of individuals to make autonomous decisions within such arenas. We nuance the theory of sex markets using the concept of sexual opportunity structures to investigate the ways in which behaviorally bisexual Latino men in the urban metropolis of New York City navigate sexual geographies, cultural meaning systems, sexual scripts, and social institutions to configure their bisexual behaviors. Drawing on 60 in-depth interviews with bisexual Latino men in New York city, we first describe and analyze venues that constitute sexual geographies that facilitate and impede sexual interaction. These also allow for a degree of autonomy in decision-making, as men travel throughout the urban sexual landscape and sometimes even manage to reject norms, such as those imposed by Christian religion. We explore some of the cultural meaning systems and social institutions that regulate sex markets and influence individual decision-making. Secrecy and discretion—regulated by the family, masculinity, migration, and religion—only partially shaped sexual behavior and relationships. These factors create a flux in “equilibrium” in bisexual sex markets in which sociocultural-economic structures constantly interplay with human agency. This article contributes to the literature in identifying dynamic spaces for sexual health interventions that draw on individual agency and empowerment.