Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Despite attention to the sexual behaviors of non-gay-identified NGI men who have same-sex encounters, virtually no research has focused on issues of partner desirability and selection. Limited evidence suggests that a subgroup of men who have sex with men MSM advertise online for sexual encounters with NGI men.
Exchange theory provided a framework to investigate this seeking of NGI men, based on the content of Internet personal advertisements for same-sex encounters. Researchers analyzed ads posted to an online bulletin board. Ads by men who explicitly desired encounters with NGI men were compared with those by men who did not indicate this preference in potential partners. Findings suggest that some men may deliberately present themselves in ways that they perceive as being attractive to NGI men, and have research implications for NGI MSM, their partners, and the risk outcomes of these online ads.
Keywords: non-gay-identified, men who have sex with men, bisexual, exchange theory, Internet. Several studies have found a higher prevalence of oral-insertive acts recent or lifetime than oral-receptive acts among behaviorally bisexual male samples, including NGI men Dodge et al. The majority of research further suggests that the prevalence of anal-insertive sex both in general and unprotected is higher than that of anal-receptive sex among these men Dodge et al.
This preference for insertive behaviors may not only contribute to the perception that these men are more masculine and dominant, but also may serve to preserve their own self-image as masculine and heterosexual.
The Internet has become a dominant strategy for individuals to meet sexual partners Chiasson et al. This is particularly true of MSM, who have been found to use the Internet extensively for sexual partnering, in part because it allows them an easy and efficient method to search for partners with specific qualities they are looking for e.
