'Their type of drugs': perceptions of substance use, sex and social boundaries among young African American and Latino gay and bisexual men.
'Their type of drugs': perceptions of substance use, sex and social boundaries among young African American and Latino gay and bisexual men.
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10.1080/13691058.2012.720033
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2012
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Mutchler MG
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McKay TA;McDavitt B;George S;Mutchler MG
对性的研究越来越多地将注意力转向理解告知和组织性行为的社会背景。在这项工作的基础上，我们研究了物质使用和性是如何为年轻的非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲同性恋和双性恋男子使用物质与性的社会组织和有意义的活动。在洛杉矶和纽约进行的30次定性访谈中，我们确定了社会界限在这些年轻人中使用药物的方式。我们发现，他们中的许多人认为同性恋和种族/民族社区，他们属于不同的物质使用模式。此外，他们认为这些社区通过物质使用积极构建群体边界，批准使用特定物质，同时阻止使用或讨论其他物质。对于这些年轻人来说，种族/民族和同性恋社区提供了突出的背景，在这些背景下，使用某些物质而不是其他物质具有社会意义。研究结果表明，重要的和迄今未被认可的方式，感知的社会边界通知这些年轻人的物质使用。作为保护和边缘化的影响，社区和社会身份的看法对年轻的非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲同性恋和双性恋男子的性健康有真实的影响。
Studies of sexuality have increasingly shifted their attention towards understanding the social contexts that inform and organise sexual behaviour. Building on this work, we examine how substance use and sex are socially organised and meaningful activities for young African American and Latino gay and bisexual men who use substances with sex. Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews in Los Angeles and New York, we identify the ways in which social boundaries inform substance use among these young men. We find that many of them view the gay and racial/ethnic communities they belong to as differentiated by patterns of substance use. Further, they see these communities as actively constructing group boundaries through substance use, sanctioning the use of particular substances while simultaneously discouraging the use or discussion of others. For these young men, racial/ethnic and gay communities provide salient contexts in which the use of certain substances and not others is socially meaningful. Findings demonstrate the important and heretofore unrecognised ways that perceived social boundaries inform these young men’s use of substances. As both protective and marginalising influences, perceptions of communities and social identities have real consequences for the sexual health of young African American and Latino gay and bisexual men.