Running Head: ISSUES IN SEXUALITY: SCHOLARLY VS. POPULAR MEDIA 1 ISSUES IN SEXUALITY: SCHOLARLY VS. POPULAR MEDIA 7 Issues in Sexuality: Scholarly vs. Popular Media  Student Instructor Course Date Article “It’s a Quick Way to Get What You Want”: Formative Exportation about HIV Risk within Urban Massachusetts Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Who Attend Sex Parties” had been the article obtained from AIDS Patient Care along with STD Journal this had been published within Oct of the year 2010. Authors of the article are Mimiaga M. J., Bland S., Reisner L. Sari, Isenberg D., Cranston K., Van Derwarker R. Driscoll A. Maura, and Mayer K. Major concentration of research had been to investigate HIV sexual risk behaviors about MSM which reported attending as well as hosting sex parties within the Massachusetts in last twelve months. Men who have sex among men at those sex parties have been at the bigger risk of getting HIV or the STI because of the fact that there have been rest of the factors included such as alcohol, drugs, higher mean of the anonymous partners, along with unprotected sex (Migiaga, 2010). This research happened at Fenway Health, a health care and research facility. There had been forty preselected participants which finished the in depth, semi structured qualitative interview along with the interviewer administered comprehensive quantitative assessment series for 1 hour and half. This study or interviews had been done through one of 2 trained interviewers. The asked questions as, How would we define the sex party? While did we start hosting or attending the sex parties? Describe sex parties we attended or hosted? Have condoms along with lube present at those parties? What type of sexual behaviors do men involve in along with what HIV as well as Sexual Transmitted Infection risk behaviors do we see for happening? Do we organize or participates such parties? Any of the rules include in the parties? When asking such questions, they assessed psycho-social factor such as anxiety, depression, alcohols used problematic as well as history of the alcohol or drug abuse along with trauma history such as child-hood sexual abuse. Results or the conclusion of study advised that men who had attended such parties have been at very much risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV because of reasons explaining in the whole the article (Migiaga, 2010). “Party, Play—And Pay” had been article taken from “Newsweek Journal”, which had been published in the year of 2005 (Jefferson, 2005). Such article provided brief detailed account of what the sex party of men on the crystal meth has been as otherwise called as “Party & Play”, or as a short form “PnP”. Authors discuss sex party’s scene like room of approximately thirty to forty men paying twenty dollars piece to host of such party, they had put each of their belong in the hefty bag for the safe-keeping when they walk-around in nude by having the sex with many partners un-protected as well as us.

1. Running Head: ISSUES IN SEXUALITY: SCHOLARLY VS.
POPULAR MEDIA 1
ISSUES IN SEXUALITY: SCHOLARLY VS. POPULAR
MEDIA 7
Issues in Sexuality: Scholarly vs. Popular Media
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Instructor
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Article “It’s a Quick Way to Get What You Want”: Formative
Exportation about HIV Risk within Urban Massachusetts Men
Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Who Attend Sex Parties” had
been the article obtained from AIDS Patient Care along with
STD Journal this had been published within Oct of the year
2010. Authors of the article are Mimiaga M. J., Bland S.,
Reisner L. Sari, Isenberg D., Cranston K., Van Derwarker R.
Driscoll A. Maura, and Mayer K. Major concentration of
research had been to investigate HIV sexual risk behaviors
about MSM which reported attending as well as hosting sex
parties within the Massachusetts in last twelve months.
Men who have sex among men at those sex parties have been at
the bigger risk of getting HIV or the STI because of the fact that
there have been rest of the factors included such as alcohol,

2. drugs, higher mean of the anonymous partners, along with
unprotected sex (Migiaga, 2010). This research happened at
Fenway Health, a health care and research facility. There had
been forty preselected participants which finished the in depth,
semi structured qualitative interview along with the interviewer
administered comprehensive quantitative assessment series for 1
hour and half. This study or interviews had been done through
one of 2 trained interviewers.
The asked questions as, How would we define the sex party?
While did we start hosting or attending the sex parties?
Describe sex parties we attended or hosted? Have condoms
along with lube present at those parties? What type of sexual
behaviors do men involve in along with what HIV as well as
Sexual Transmitted Infection risk behaviors do we see for
happening? Do we organize or participates such parties? Any of
the rules include in the parties?
When asking such questions, they assessed psycho-social factor
such as anxiety, depression, alcohols used problematic as well
as history of the alcohol or drug abuse along with trauma
history such as child-hood sexual abuse. Results or the
conclusion of study advised that men who had attended such
parties have been at very much risk for acquiring and
transmitting HIV because of reasons explaining in the whole the
article (Migiaga, 2010).
“Party, Play—And Pay” had been article taken from “Newsweek
Journal”, which had been published in the year of 2005
(Jefferson, 2005). Such article provided brief detailed account
of what the sex party of men on the crystal meth has been as
otherwise called as “Party & Play”, or as a short form “PnP”.
Authors discuss sex party’s scene like room of approximately
thirty to forty men paying twenty dollars piece to host of such
party, they had put each of their belong in the hefty bag for the
safe-keeping when they walk-around in nude by having the sex
with many partners un-protected as well as using the illegal
drugs.
Authors had stated many factors, which had been putting such

3. men at the risk like many partners, drug usage as well as un-
protected sex. They talked about how a person on the meth
along with having hundred of un-safe sexual en-counters might
have been an outcome in powerful drug resistant strains of the
HIV. Leaving the health officials as well as community leader
for taking long looks on how a crystal metham-phetamine has
been playing a huge role for spreading the Virus of AIDS as
well as HIV (Jefferson, 2005). Authors describe how a crystal
meth can leave the users with hyper-sexual and euphoric
feeling, for leading in the binges with many partners for many
days.
In this article, as par Center for the Disease Controlling as well
as Preventing, the men, which have been high on the crystal
meth, which have been 4 times much more likely for engaging
in the un-protected sex rather than those who aren’t high? This
article states that several males pop the Viagra for countering
the temporary impotence.
Such mixer of the drugs made the users much more open for
unsafe the sex, so leading to great risk for contracting the HIV.
They had been concluded this article with interview on
somebody who had lived a life of “Party, Play and Pay” as well
as how they had lost everything. They stated that how few
persons have been fight back on war with the crystallize meth as
well as the contribution to the HIV through posting
advertisement on the billboard along with coaster in the gay bar,
which read “Buy the Crystal Get the HIV Free (Jefferson,
2005).
Both of such articles have been referring to greatest epidemic,
which has been infecting gay’s community HIV. They have
talked about how the behavior as attendances of the personal
sex parties, usage of drug, sex with many partners as well as
usage of the un-protected sex have been assisting in growth of
the HIV among gay’s community. Although such articles have
giving many of similar data, they have been so varied. Scholarly
article as compared to public media article has very much in
depth along with having fact numbers, which had been taken

4. from direct studies.
Authors of scholarly article have seemed for leaving no stone
un-turned as well as no question had un-asked. This scholarly
article includes the abstract-providing description on entire
study, which afterwards leads towards introduction, techniques
utilized for instance design as well as setting in which study
happen along with they how data had been gathered, how
candidates had been chosen towards participating. This in
addition discussed how qualitative interview had been done and
also they questions, what had been asked, this article provides
the quantitative assessment and also approach, which had been
taken towards retrieving information, therefore finishing in
outcomes, conclusion and also discussion.
Scholarly article has given the information, numbers, and
percentages along with averages of demographics, sexual
behavior, as well as psychosocial features of men who had been
interviewed and surveyed within the research. This has been
written quite formal tone, within greater detail, displayed
authors’ findings towards being displayed for rest of the experts
along with students within the particular field to research and
review. All of authors who have written on scholarly had been
experts having degrees. Most of scholarly articles that are found
are inclusive of more than only 1 or 2 pages and they have
particular guidelines.
Authors cite its sources though out article as well as they in
addition involve list of references at very finish. Graphs along
with data had been involved. Once research has been finished
and article has been written this goes by the rigorous peer
review procedure. Public media article provided the informal
tone towards entire “HIV, drugs, gay men along with sex
parties. They utilized information, facts, numbers and also
percentages from separate sources such as “Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention” as well as several resources rather than
of doing its individual control study, research or interviews
researched within the trained research team.
Scholarly along with renowned media both give the greater

5. volume of information, only shown separately. Scholarly
articles looks towards giving us with the much more intellectual
approach towards topic or what we have been trying to learn
and also may be utilized perfectly within the academic culture
however same as the renowned media article it’s only numbers,
demographics, facts taken from the research along with their
subjects. This lacks actual stories and also visual pictures about
human beings and how they have been being affected through
such epidemic.
Talking of how few people lost its jobs, homes, family and also
life towards life style, which lead them towards AIDS/HIV,
being the outcome hitting lesser closer towards home as well as
how this has been affecting now a day’s gay community along
with what they have been doing to counter act those behaviors.
Professors are willing to advertise scholarly along with peer
reviewed articles just as this has been the array of the factual
information written through subject matter experts within just
formative manner.
Sex has been something, which has not been formally studied
usually along with that has been why people have several
separate perceptions about what sex has actually been like.
Many times those perceptions may lead towards lot of
misleading information. Sex may be the general towards few
however not so general to rests because of the fact that there
have been many aspects towards the sex such as bisexuality,
homosexuality and also heterosexuality.
No one called it all while this comes towards sex and it has
been why we must leave it towards experts. It has been however
why scholarly articles have been preferred along with hyped up
through professors. Scholarly as well as public media articles
may be quite reliable based on source and its credentials. Doing
such review about differences of the scholarly or peer reviewed
article and public media shown me pros & cons to both kind of
articles.
When we have been seeing for the article, which has been
reliable academically along with that is seen through several of

6. subject experts scholarly articles have been what we have been
seeing for. When we have been seeing for the informal
information having quite little statistics however trustful
information on subject matter we may read the public media
article. To conclude, when we actually have been willing to
know more of subject, look up both scholarly along with in
public media articles only for gathering the wide assortment of
information from separate variable resources.
References
Jefferson, D. B. (2005). Party, Play and Pay. Newsweek .
Migiaga, M. (2010). "It's a quick way to get what you want": A
formative exploration of HIV
risk among urban Massachusetts men who have sex with men
who attend sex parties. Aids Patient Care and STD, 24(10) ,
659-674.