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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Educ Prev. 2013 Aug;25(4):315–326. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2013.25.4.315

Table 2.

Acceptability of strategies for delivering prevention messages in SEM (N=1,231)

X̄ (SD)
1 A clip at the beginning with a porn star encouraging you to practice safer sex 2.52 (1.66)
2 Guys finding sexy ways to talk about condoms 2.76 (1.66)
3 Guys putting a condom on themselves or on their partner(s) 2.03 (1.28)
4 Guys applying lube to themselves or to their partner(s) 1.87 (1.11)
5 Discussion of HIV status before sex 3.25 (1.82)
6 Including porn stars living with HIV 3.36 (1.84)
7 Using condoms for anal sex 2.12 (1.46)
8 Using dental dams or barriers for rimming 3.68 (1.85)
9 Using gloves for fingering 3.93 (1.87)
10 Using gloves for fisting 3.04 (1.76)
11 Using condoms for oral sex 4.33 (1.89)

Note: Participants responded to 13 questions. Item 3 is an average of responses to two questions as is item 4 because the original items were highly correlated. All items were responded to using a 7-point Likert-type response format, with 1 = very acceptable and 7 = very unacceptable.