caa a22 4500 606231544 CHVBK 20210128101220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0405-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0405-0 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 [Elektronische Daten] [Sarah Calabrese, Joshua Rosenberger, Vanessa Schick, David Novak] 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. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Black nationallicence Gay nationallicence MSM nationallicence Stereotypes nationallicence Sex nationallicence Pleasure nationallicence Affection nationallicence Love nationallicence Calabrese Sarah Yale School of Public Health and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, 135 College Street, Suite 358, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA aut Rosenberger Joshua Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA aut Schick Vanessa School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA aut Novak David OLB Research Institute, Online Buddies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/7(2015-10-01), 2001-2014 0004-0002 44:7<2001 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0405-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0405-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Calabrese Sarah Yale School of Public Health and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, 135 College Street, Suite 358, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosenberger Joshua Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schick Vanessa School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Novak David OLB Research Institute, Online Buddies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/7(2015-10-01), 2001-2014 0004-0002 44:7<2001 2015 44 10508