«Treatment - related behavioral beliefs in this study paralleled a resurgence in condomless
anal sex among men who have sex with men measured over nearly two decades,» explains Kalichman.
Condomless receptive
anal sex among HIV uninfected men has doubled, while insertive condomless anal sex has more than tripled among HIV - positive men.
Not exact matches
Among uninfected men and those who did not know their HIV status, condomless
anal sex increased from 43 percent in 1997 to 61 percent in 2015.
Among HIV - positive men — 14 percent to 17 percent of those surveyed — the number who reported recently having
anal sex without a condom grew from 25 percent in 1997 to 67 percent in 2015.
Among men who said they were HIV - negative or didn't know their status, 43 percent in 1997 said they'd had
anal sex without a condom within the last six months.
While
among gay
sex techniques,
anal penetration is a primary source of sexual appeasement along with fisting or gay rimming as it is called.
I created a little bit of a controversy
among our team in Malawi as I was designing the survey, including questions asking not just about
sex in general, but types of
sex — vaginal or
anal — and how often one uses condoms for both types.
Clearly, the assumption
among my team was that no one in Malawi has
anal sex, but in really, a sizeable percentage does.