A University of Glasgow survey has recently revealed some curious trends in the sexual practices of "monogamous" young gay men.
During the GAYCON 2014, the 5th National Conference for Scotland on Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health and Wellbeing, a certain Nicola Boydell presented the findings she got from studies and interviews she conducted with 30 gay men with ages ranging from 18 to 29 years.
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The question? What are their thoughts on condoms use. And here are some of the responses that she got:
“Anal sex is more risky than any other type of sex. But with a regular partner [it] is less risky than with a casual partner.”
“If it was just like a casual thing, I would always use condoms and then if we’re going out like, at the start, for like a couple of months, depending on the person, we would use a condom. Then after that, if like we trusted each other, if I trusted him, we wouldn’t.”
“At the moment we’re monogamous. But at the same time, we both appreciate other men, and there have been occasions when we’ve both been together with other guys, but we use protection in that instance.”
“I don’t think we’ve ever sat down and discussed [monogamy], but I know that’s… we must have discussed it in bits over time, because I just know that’s, that’s the case.”
Boydell concluded that while some of the guys said both they underwent HIV testing before stopping the use of condoms, a good number relied on the belief that if one of them was HIV-positive, he would tell the other partner. These men also said that being monogamous is enough to make them feel safe.
Just for the record, a 2010 study made and published by San Francisco State University showed that primary partners are a major source of HIV-infection.
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