Branched sexuality and sexual health among Black cisgender sexual minority men in Baltimore, Maryland: an exploratory study.

ABSTRACT: Branched sexuality - in form of combinations of sexual identity, behaviour and attraction (e.g. heterosexual identity, sex with men, attraction to women) that differ from coincident combinations (e.g. gay/homosexual/same-gender-loving identity, sex with men, attraction to men) - has been observed among Black sexual minority men and may correlate with sexual health. Using baseline survey data from Black sexual minority men (N = 323) enrolled in a sexual health intervention trial, we examined sexual identity, behaviour and attraction to determine the prevalence of branched sexuality and used modified Poisson regression with robust variance estimation to test associations with sexual health. Black sexual minority men reporting branched sexuality (n = 50, 15.5%) were marginally m

SUBMITTER: Wiginton JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898841 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature