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The Internet's accessibility, affordability and anonymity has allowed men seeking men to experiment with sexual identities and behaviours, including those identities and behaviours that are often deemed aberrant by the larger society ( Brown, Maycock, and Burns 2005 Daneback, Ross, and Mansson 2008 Davis et al.
2006 Delph 1981 Fernandez-Davila and Lorca 2011 Gauthier and Forsyth 1999 Grov, Parsons, and Bimbi 2007 Ross 2005 Ross, Tikkanen, and Mansson 2000 Sanders 2008 Tewksbury 2010 Wilson et al. 2004 Brown, Maycock, and Burns 2005 Daneback et al.
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In this ‘erotic oasis’, men seeking men are able to investigate sexual health information, negotiate their sexuality and sexual behaviours, cruise for offline sexual encounters and even engage in virtual sex with other men ( Adam, Murphy, and de Wit 2011 Bolding et al. The ubiquity of the Internet has engendered novel discourses around sexuality, creating a space for new sexual identities to be developed online ( Brown, Maycock, and Burns 2005 Fernandez-Davila and Lorca 2011 Gauthier and Forsyth 1999 Ross 2005 Ross, Tikkanen, and Mansson 2000). The Internet has become a crucial medium for many people to explore their sexuality, especially for men seeking other men for sexual purposes. For other men (e.g., those from large cities), the behaviour may be an alternative to offset sexual risk while still being able to ‘get off’. For some men (e.g., heterosexual-identifying men), the behaviour provides a sexual outlet in which fantasy and experimentation may be explored without risking stigmatization. Our results suggested that self-contained Internet cruising might provide dual functions. Most notably, bisexual- and heterosexual-identifying men seeking men compared to gay-identifying men found these acts to be more erotic. Likewise, men seeking men from mid-sized cities and large cities compared to men from smaller cities found Internet cruising and emailing to be erotic. Our results showed that younger compared to older men seeking men found the acts erotic. We surveyed 499 men who used for sexually-oriented purposes, and ran an ordinary least squares multiple regression model to determine the demographic characteristics of men seeking men who found Internet cruising erotic. The present study examines men who find the acts of Internet cruising and emailing to be erotic as self-contained behaviours. Other research has only focused on online sexual behaviours such as cybersex. Most studies on men seeking men and who use the Internet for sexual purposes have focused on the epidemiological outcomes of Internet cruising.