ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2017
Breakage is the norm: use of condoms and lubrication in anal sex among Black South African men who have sex with men.
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- Lubricants for the promotion of sexual health and well-being: a systematic review.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2021Pooled it
- Thematic synthesis HIV prevention qualitative studies in men who have sex with men (MSM).Colombia medica (Cali, Colombia) · 2019Pooled it
- The impact of HIV prevention behavior patterns on infection risk among young men who have sex with men: a latent class analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Consistency of Condom Use with Lubricants and Associated Factors Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Ghana: Evidence from Integrated Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Holistic Sexual-Reproductive Healthcare Services and Needs for Queer Individuals: Healthcare Providers' Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- [Discourses about condom use and non-use among gay, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men in two colombian cities.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2023Article
- Barriers to access and utilisation of HIV/STIs prevention and care services among trans-women sex workers in the greater Kampala metropolitan area, Uganda.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
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- Time to change the paradigm: limited condom and lubricant use among Nigerian men who have sex with men and transgender women despite availability and counseling.Annals of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Understanding the Psychosocial Correlates of the Intention to Use Condoms among Young Men in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
This paper explores condom use and lubrication practices among Black men who have sex with men in South African townships. Results are from 81 in-depth individual interviews conducted among a purposive sample from four townships surrounding Pretoria as part of a larger qualitative study. Awareness that condoms should be used to have safer anal sex was ubiquitous. Fewer men reported that lubricants should be used to facilitate anal intercourse. Partner pressure and partner distrust were the most common barriers cited for not using condoms and lubricants. Knowledge about condom-lubricant compatibility was rare. Condom problems were a norm, with widespread expectations of condom failure. Men's subjectivities - their perceptions of and preferences for specific brands, types and flavours of condoms and lubricants - influenced engagement with such safer-sex technologies. However, what was available in these settings was often neither what men needed nor preferred. Findings show the need to enhance access to appropriate and comprehensive: safer-sex supplies, health services and health education, and underline the importance of efforts to develop targeted programmes relevant to experiences of men who have sex with men in the South African context.
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