(PDF) Cisg and Connectg Onle: the Use of Inter Chat S by Gay Men In Sydney and Melbourne | Dean Murphy

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• GAY SYDNEY
• CISG AND CONNECTG ONLE: THE USE OF INTER CHAT S BY GAY MEN IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNECISG AND CONNECTG ONLE: THE USE OF INTER CHAT S BY GAY MEN IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNECISG AND CONNECTG ONLE: THE USE OF INTER CHAT S BY GAY MEN IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNECISG AND CONNECTG ONLE: THE USE OF INTER CHAT S BY GAY MEN IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNECISG AND CONNECTG ONLE: THE USE OF INTER CHAT S BY GAY MEN IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE

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Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

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The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. Jt 11 new HIV s were rerd ner Sydney last year, a rearcher The Inner Sydney district, once the epicentre of Atralia's HIV epimic, is very close to beg the first place the world to reach the UN's target for endg transmissn of the vis, rearchers said on has set a goal of endg AIDS as a global health threat by 2030, which clus rcg the number of new HIV s by 90 per cent pared to ner Sydney, new fectns among gay men dropped by 88 per cent om 2010 to 2022, rearchers announced at the Internatnal AIDS Society's HIV science nference beg held the Atralian cy of Glich, an epimlogist at the Universy of New South Wal who prented the rearch, told AFP that "we're very nearly there" some eight years ahead of the 2030 11 new HIV s were rerd ner Sydney last year, "an extraordarily small number of fectns for what was the heart of the Atralian HIV epimic, " Glich men make up an timated 20 per cent of the male populatn ner Sydney, and they reprent the large majory of the cy's HIV s.

Another study announced at the AIDS nference, which was published The Lancet journal, said that people on antiretrovirals who have low but tectible levels of HIV have almost zero risk of sexually transmtg the vis to Sydney rearch, which has not been peer-reviewed, was based on data om the New South Wal health partment as well as annual surveys taken by gay men about their e of antiretrovirals, PrEP and ttg.

UNAIDS has set a goal of endg AIDS as a global health threat by 2030, which clus rcg the number of new HIV s by 90 percent pared to ner Sydney, new fectns among gay men dropped by 88 percent om 2010 to 2022, rearchers announced at the Internatnal AIDS Society's HIV science nference beg held the Atralian cy of Glich, an epimlogist at the Universy of New South Wal who prented the rearch, told AFP that "we're very nearly there" some eight years ahead of the 2030 11 new HIV s were rerd ner Sydney last year, "an extraordarily small number of fectns for what was the heart of the Atralian HIV epimic, " Glich men make up an timated 20 percent of the male populatn ner Sydney, and they reprent the large majory of the cy's HIV s.

While gay men are now well aware of preventn tools like PrEP, "the heterosexual muny is pretty much obliv, " said Ellis, a munitns ordator for the NGO Posive Women Sydney rearch, which has not been peer-reviewed, was based on data om the New South Wal health partment as well as annual surveys taken by gay men. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.