Human Sexuality.
Research article review handout
- Research topic: Stealthing: Factors associated with young men’s nonconsensual
Condom Removal
- A summary of previous research
The rising rate of sexual infections is a significant concern. All efforts have been made to improve the use of condoms, but it has not succeeded in reducing sexually transmitted diseases. The youth adults have always attempted to have sex without condoms. Men are the most affected as they would always bring reasons not to use condoms even when the female partner is demanding.
The resistance to using a condom can occur through coercive approach or non-coercive approach. The condom resistance forms the basis of study as it increases the chances of infection. The coercive approach is not very common but still is used by many adult youths who always opt to have sex without the condom. A form of coercive condom use is when pretending to be using condoms at the beginning but removes it during sexual intercourse without the other partner realizing it. Such behavior is called stealing. Stealthing has been used by many exposing their partners to sexual infections without the other partner, understanding that the condom was removed. Stealthing has been regarded as a sexual assault that needs to be dealt with. The media and legal area have all taken this matter up, but it is still not showing a lot of ways forward.
- The purpose of the article
This research intends to bridge the gap information on stealthing and give way forward in dealing with this problem (Davis, 2019). This work will check on one’s ability to use the condoms well, one’s state of mind, and the reasons that make a person engage in stealthing. The use of condoms was the variable that was to be used in the research of male adult youths. Thus, the study will try to determine if men who engage in stealing are at a high risk of sexual infections.
- What the researchers did.
The researchers first have to get people that they were to use in the research, and all of them were young male adults. They had to use a print advertisement, online recruitment, and telephone follow-ups. Some sessions were done in the laboratory. A survey carried out and the administration of alcohol to the participants. All these approaches were used, but the current one, the researchers only used the in – laboratory data where a research assistant of the same gender took charge of the age verification and the consent forms, then the participants proceeded to continue answering questions in a computer in a private room. These were nonconsensual condom removal, sexual aggression-related predictors, condom use: self-efficacy, and sexual risk indices (Davis, 2019), which revealed the participants. The participants were also given $15 per hour for taking part in the research.
In nonconsensual condom removal, the respondent was to disclose how many times he had successfully avoided the use of a condom when a woman wanted to use one through pretending to use it and removing it before or during sex. The sexual aggression aspect was in line with the use of drugs to lure one into sex, use force, or verbal coercion leading to sex without the use of condoms. Participants recorded the number of times they participated in each sex. In self-efficacy, one was to agree on the efficacy of condom use or disagree about the effectiveness of condom use (Davis, 2019). The sexual risk indices analyzed STI infections, pregnancies, and long-time partner’s infections. All the responses were limited to 14 years old to the present age.
- Summary of the findings
The findings were divided along with different communities of whites, black Americans, Indians, and many different communities. Most of the participants’ level of education was high as most of them were in college or had finished their college education. The participants were average people mostly falling in the middle class. The more significant percentage of the participants were heterosexual, and a small portion was heterosexual and homosexuals. A small percentage reported engaging in nonconsensual removal of condoms from the age of 14 years.
The participants had done it once, twice, or many times (Davis, 2019). More than half the participants reported sexual aggression through being hostile to women, believing in adverse heterosexuals, and accepting the rape myth. A more significant number of men who engaged in nonconsensual condom removal reports a history of STI diagnosis and their sexual partners becoming pregnant without planning as compared to the regular users of condoms. Stealthing and sexual aggression have increased STI as most of the participants who practiced the two were found to have had infections arising from their behavior. There was a significant correlation between the indices used to measure sexual aggression and stealthing, which means that those who practiced one also practiced the other.
- A general critic of the article.
The article got the expected results. It was proven that sexual infections are in the increase due to sexual aggression and stealthing. It also revealed that most sexual partners find themselves infected or pregnant due to the stealing behavior of male sexual partners. The findings that stealing, sexual aggression, and STI infections are related as a person practicing the first two can easily infect the partner with STI (Davis, 2019). The articles also revealed a research method that provided a lot of privacy to the participants by allowing them to participate in the research without coercion. The money used as a motivating factor had a positive impact on the participants. I don’t see any reason that would have made the participants lie in the research, so I believe the findings were well informed.
The analytical aspect of the data also seems to be useful as the statistics revealed shows good use of mathematical regression methods to give the desired results. The age selection between 14 upwards to early 30s was right as this group is very active sexually. The group also seems to have a certain level of education, so they answered questions that they clearly understood.
The research, however, needed to look at other indices like parenting aspect, community culture, and demographic factors that might have led to this behavior. Such an index would also have revealed much about the behavior of the participants.
- References (APA Referencing).
Davis, K. C. (2019). “Stealthing”: Factors associated with young men’s nonconsensual condom removal. Health psychology, 38(11), 997.
- In-text citation
APA- (Davis, 2019)
MLA- (Davis, 998)
HAVARD- (Davis, 2019)
CHICAGO- (Davis 2019)