Table 1.
Examples of sex markets and activities that take place
| Place | Location relative to residence of participant | Types of patrons/ people in space | Activities in space | Ways to find partners | Reasons for visiting place for bisexual Latinos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home in outer borrow | Participant prefers to meet potential sex partners in his residence | Lower middle class neighborhood, youth in the streets, participant lives in a rented room | Having dinner, playing cards, watching movies, drinking, talking | On-line and through friendship networks | Inexpensive space to hang out with women and men for casual encounters or dating |
| Heterosexual nightclub (Lower East Side, Manhattan) | Participant commutes from upper Manhattan (approximately 45 minutes) | Middle to upper-middle class club with a high cost of entrance; men and women, mostly meterosexuals | Drinking, eating, socializing, dancing house music and hip hop, cruising, exchange of contacts, kissing among men and women | Cruise, buy cocktails, exchange phone numbers, date | Finding females that are young, potential partners to marry and have children, dates |
| Gay Bar (Midtown, Manhattan) | Participant lives in Midtown just blocks away from the place | Middle class bar, cocktails are approximately $10, mostly male environment, | Drinking, cruising, socializing, exchange of contacts, sex in restrooms, kissing, men display their bodies with tight clothing | Cruise, buy cocktails, exchange phone numbers, date | Meeting gay and bisexual men, safe space for same-sex sexual expression, potential dates or casual partners |
| Park in neighborhood | Public space located in the community of the participant in the Bronx | Low and middle class, availability of men and women | Sitting, leisure, cruising, sex work, biking, smoking cigarettes, playing dominos, walking dogs | Using codes, such as the gaze, talking to strangers, asking for a cigarette | Socialization with potential friends, casual sex partners, leisure |
| Latino Heterosexual club in neighborhood | Participant lives blocks away from the establishment in Washington Heights | Low and middle class, Latino men and women with a heterosexual role, some meterosexuals | Dancing to Latin music, drinking, exchange of contacts, kissing, sex work, women are hypersexualized in dress | Cruise, buy cocktails and bottles of liquor, exchange phone numbers, casual sex, date | Supply of people who share general aspects of Latino culture such as dancing and speaking Spanish, casual sex partners |
| DateBi.com | Participant belongs to a virtual network of potential partners | Bisexual, gay men, and heterosexual women of mixed social classes | Messages, winks, likes/dislikes, casual sex, long term relationships, short term relationships, friend networking, those who pay membership have control over initiating conversation | Sell personality and body through description and pictures, maintain a wholesome persona | Supply of potential partners for short and long term relationships |
| Macho to Macho Website | Person belongs to a virtual network of casual sex partners | Bisexual and gay men of mixed social classes | Cruising, casual sex, pornographic picture pictures, web cam communication for mutual virtual masturbation, sex work, membership fee makes it possible to have web cam sex and message | Display naked bodies, penises, muscles, solicit sex | Supply of partners for casual sex, visual stimulation, fantasy and sexual desire |