Jeffries William L
Department of Sociology, University of Florida, PO Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611-7330, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2009 Oct;38(5):765-78. doi: 10.1007/s10508-007-9254-4. Epub 2007 Oct 30.
Machismo prescribes that homosexual encounters among Latino men are conducted along highly gendered lines: men tend to be anally insertive or receptive over the lifecourse, but not both. Some have argued that Latino men have more lifecourse homosexual behaviors in comparison to other racial/ethnic groups. This is often due to the perception that Latin America has quasi-institutionalized homosexuality, which sharply contrasts it with the United States. Although scholars suggest that sex role preferences and greater likelihoods for homosexual behaviors exist among Latino men in the United States, limited empirical data validate these claims. Latino/non-Latino differences in male homosexual behaviors and sex role preferences were analyzed by using the 2002 cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth, a nationally representative, probability sample of 4,928 men. Findings revealed that non-Mexican Latino, but not Mexican, men had increased likelihoods of ever having anal sex than non-Latino Whites and oral sex than non-Latino Blacks. These relationships remained after controlling for age, education, and foreign birth. Latino men preferred insertive or receptive sex in comparison to non-Latino Blacks and Whites, but this difference disappeared after education was controlled. In full and reduced models, Mexican men tended to be orifice-specific (oral or anal), while non-Mexican Latinos were more oriented to both oral and anal sex. Controlling for other factors, all Latinos were more likely than non-Latino Blacks and Whites to refuse to answer male homosexual behavior questions. The implications of race/ethnicity are discussed for homosexual behavior patterns among U.S. men.
大男子主义观念规定，拉丁裔男性之间的同性恋行为具有高度性别化特征：男性在其一生中往往要么是肛门插入方，要么是接受方，不会兼具两者。一些人认为，与其他种族/族裔群体相比，拉丁裔男性有更多的终身同性恋行为。这通常是因为人们认为拉丁美洲存在准制度化的同性恋现象，这与美国形成了鲜明对比。尽管学者们指出，在美国的拉丁裔男性中存在性别角色偏好以及更高的同性恋行为可能性，但仅有有限的实证数据能证实这些说法。我们利用2002年全国生育情况调查周期的数据，对4928名具有全国代表性的男性概率样本进行分析，以研究拉丁裔/非拉丁裔男性在同性恋行为和性别角色偏好方面的差异。研究结果显示，非墨西哥裔拉丁裔男性（而非墨西哥裔男性）与非拉丁裔白人相比，有过肛交的可能性增加，与非拉丁裔黑人相比，有过口交的可能性增加。在控制了年龄、教育程度和外国出生情况后，这些关系依然存在。与非拉丁裔黑人和白人相比，拉丁裔男性更喜欢插入式或接受式性行为，但在控制教育程度后，这种差异消失了。在完整模型和简化模型中，墨西哥裔男性倾向于特定的性行为方式（口交或肛交），而非墨西哥裔拉丁裔男性则对口交和肛交都更感兴趣。在控制了其他因素后，所有拉丁裔男性比非拉丁裔黑人和白人更有可能拒绝回答有关男性同性恋行为的问题。本文讨论了种族/族裔因素对美国男性同性恋行为模式的影响。
