ABSTRACT

Sexually explicit material (SEM) featuring men who have sex with men (MSM) may be a source of information about intimacy in same-sex male relationships for MSM. However, little is known about how MSM SEM depicts intimacy between male performers. The current study examined the 220 most viewed dyadic scenes of MSM SEM videos for the presence of verbal intimacy (compliments, personal disclosure, and expressions of care) and physical intimacy (kissing, cuddling, affectionate touch, and genital touch before and after sex) between performers. At least one example of physical and verbal intimacy was present in the majority of videos (91% and 68% of videos, respectively). Most forms of physical and verbal intimacy occurred before or during sex, with intimacy being least evident post-sex. We also tested if the presence of intimacy was associated with viewer interactions with videos (likes and dislikes) and number of views. Only one of seven forms of intimacy, care (verbal), was associated with more interactions (i.e., likes and dislikes per 100,000 views), and there was no association with the number of views. Potential implications for MSM’s understandings of intimacy are recognized and discussed with reference to sexual script theory.

摘要

以男性与男性（MSM）发生性关系为特征的露骨色情材料（SEM）可能是有关MSM同性男性关系中亲密关系的信息来源。但是，对于MSM SEM如何描述男性演员之间的亲密关系知之甚少。当前的研究检查了220个观看次数最多的MSM SEM视频的二元场景，以了解是否存在言语亲密感（行为，个人披露和护理表达）和身体亲密感（性爱前后的亲吻，拥抱，深情触摸和生殖器触摸）。表演者之间。大多数视频中至少存在一个身体和语言亲密的例子（分别占视频的91％和68％）。大多数形式的身体和语言亲密关系都发生在性爱之前或期间，而亲密关系在性行为后最不明显。我们还测试了亲密感的存在是否与观看者与视频（喜欢和不喜欢）以及观看次数的互动有关。亲密，关心（言语）这七种形式中，只有一种与更多的互动相关（即，每100,000个观看次数中的喜欢和不喜欢），并且与观看次数无关。参考性脚本理论，认识并讨论了MSM对亲密感的潜在影响。