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- Title
THE INVISIBLE MAN -- AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC: MASCULINITIES, (HOMO)SEXUALITIES, VULNERABILITIES, AND HIV RISK IN SOUTH ASIA.
- Authors
Khan, Shivananda
- Abstract
Constructions of South Asian male sexualities and masculinities are not framed within an exclusivist heterosexual/homosexual dyad, but rather are based on gendered roles and performances. Thus the term "Men Who Have Sex With Men" may not be appropriate in addressing sexual concerns arising from male-to- male sexual behaviours. But along with this, within a cultural framework of compulsory marriage and concepts of masculinity leads to a situation where the majority of males who have sex with males will also have sex with females, i.e. wives, female sex workers, and other females. In such a sexually polymorphous framework, HIV/STI transmission is not so straightforward, and in conjunction with stigma and shame in terms of being penetrated, along with invisibility and denial of services, creates a highly volatile and multiple risk situation for males who have sex with males and both their male and female partners.
- Subjects
SOUTH Asia; MASCULINITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HIV infections
- Publication
Harvard Asia Quarterly, 2004, Vol 8, Issue 3, p35
- ISSN
1522-4147
- Publication type
Article