Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Nov;43(9):1981-1995. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13369. Epub 2021 Sep 9.
The global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for communities built around certain sexual practices, and some of which have responded by using their previous experiences of HIV. In this article, we undertake an online ethnography of a popular Anglo-American barebackers' forum to understand how HIV and COVID-19 converge and how these men negotiate COVID-19 risk by adapting previous sexual and disease prevention strategies. Barebackers, aka gay men who eroticise condomless anal intercourse, provide a relevant group to consider given their longstanding negotiation of HIV. We explore processes of responsibility, risk management and pleasure during the COVID-19 pandemic. We suggest that their experiences of both the AIDS crisis and the current context of HIV frame their decisions around COVID-19. We focus on how responsibility and desire shape discussions of bathhouses and the survival of barebackers' sexual practices during and after COVID-19.
全球 COVID-19 大流行给围绕某些性行为建立的社区带来了新的挑战,其中一些社区已经利用了他们之前在 HIV 方面的经验。在本文中,我们对一个受欢迎的英美地区无保护性行为者论坛进行了在线民族志研究,以了解 HIV 和 COVID-19 是如何汇聚的,以及这些男性如何通过调整以前的性和疾病预防策略来应对 COVID-19 风险。无保护性行为者,又名将无保护肛交视为性行为的快感来源的男同性恋者,鉴于他们对 HIV 的长期协商,是一个值得考虑的相关群体。我们探讨了在 COVID-19 大流行期间的责任、风险管理和快感的过程。我们认为,他们在艾滋病危机和当前 HIV 背景下的经历影响了他们对 COVID-19 的决策。我们关注的是责任和欲望如何塑造了对浴室的讨论以及无保护性行为者性行为在 COVID-19 期间和之后的生存。