Circumcision Status is Not Associated with Condom Use and Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Young Black MSM

This study investigated whether intact young Black MSM differed from their circumcised counterparts regarding condom use behaviors and perceptions and HIV/Chlamydia/gonorrhea. Young Black MSM completed a self-interview, including a pictorial item assessing circumcision status and measures of condom use. 

Twenty-seven percent of 388 participants reported not being circumcised. With one exception, no associations tested approached significance. The mean frequency of unprotected insertive anal sex for circumcised men was about twice as high compared to those intact (P = .04). Intact young Black MSM did not differ from circumcised men relative to prevalence of STIs (including HIV) or condom use behaviors as reported only by insertive partners.

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By: Crosby RA1,2, Graham CA3,4, Mena L5, Yarber WL6,7,8, Sanders SA6,7, Milhausen RR6,9, Geter A10.

• 1College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, 151 Washington Ave., Lexington, KY, 40506-0003, USA. crosby@uky.edu.
• 2The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN, USA. crosby@uky.edu.
• 3The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN, USA. C.A.Graham@soton.ac.uk.
• 4Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, 44/3016 Shackleton Building, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, UK. C.A.Graham@soton.ac.uk.
• 5University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, MS, USA.
• 6The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN, USA.
• 7Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
• 8Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
• 9Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
• 10College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, 151 Washington Ave., Lexington, KY, 40506-0003, USA.

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