Partners Of Men Research Articles

The role of objectification in young men's perpetration of intimate partner violence.

Theorists have argued that objectification is implicated in men's violence against women. Growing correlational and experimental evidence supports this claim. However, little research has studied the link between objectification and violence perpetrated by intimate partners. Three studies examined this link in relation to several forms of violent behavior. Study 1 (N = 215) found that men who implicitly associated women with objects were more likely to perpetrate sexual and physical violence against their female romantic partner, independent of their levels of hostile sexism. Study 2 (N = 325) replicated this finding but examined automatic associations with men's intimate partners rather than women as a class. Greater implicit objectification was again associated with self-reported physical violence and with a behavioral proxy measure of aggression among participants who responded most strongly to an experimental provocation. Study 3 (N = 192) manipulated objectification by inducing a physical appearance-focus mindset and found that the manipulation increased men's tendency to respond violently toward their partner. By implication, objectification appears to play a significant role in facilitating men's violence in romantic relationships.

Hostile Masculinity, Male Peer Support for Violence, and Problematic Anger: Linking Childhood Abuse to Men's Partner Violence Perpetration.

Child abuse and masculinity have been linked to intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. However, there is a lack of work examining multiple aspects of masculinity as links between early abuse experiences and men's IPV perpetration. Grounded in notions of gendered power and patriarchy, this study aimed to examine hostile masculinity, male peer support for violence against women, and problematic anger as aspects of masculinity connecting childhood victimization and men's violence against women. Structural equation modeling results demonstrated that childhood adversity was indirectly related to IPV perpetration via the proposed factors. However, various patterns emerged based on the type of childhood abuse experienced. Practice-based implications are offered.

Ezer in the Context of Men Creation in Genesis 2:4b-25

In the story of human creation written in the book of Genesis 2:4b-25, it is stated that the Lord God saw that it was not good for humans to be alone, so God made a suitable helper (ezer) for Adam. He created the woman from Adam's rib. Women were created by God as helpers equal to men. This states that women are not inferior to men, but to state that women are men's partners in carrying out the tasks and responsibilities that God has given to humans.

The proactive-reactive classification of intimate partner violence offenders: A multi-method approach to classification.

Men who commit violence against an intimate partner differ in their motives. Classifying the proactivity of men's partner violence may reveal important differences that could be treatment targets. To examine the differences between proactive and reactive partner violence based on coded descriptions of past violent events. Community cohabiting couples reporting intimate partner violence were recruited via advertisements. Men and women were independently interviewed about past male-to-female violent events. The narratives of a male perpetrator and a female victim were coded using a Proactive-Reactive coding system, yielding three categories of violence: reactive, mixed proactive/reactive and proactive. The three categories were compared for differences in personality disorder features, attachment, psychophysiological reactivity during a conflict discussion task, and a self- and partner report of men's proactive and reactive aggressive tendencies. The results revealed a 54% classification agreement between perpetrator and victim reports. No differences were found on personality or attachment measures between the groups regardless of gender of the reporter. Reactive violence was related to a tendency to self-report more reactive aggression and higher heart rate reactivity during a laboratory conflict discussion compared to the group reporting both proactive and reactive violent incidents. This study suggests that a coding system for intimate partner violence can be applied to community volunteers, and it is a reliable report and valid. However, there are discrepancies when the coding is based on the perpetrator or victim reports.

Men's Psychopathy and Mating Effort in Intimate Relationships: Links with Jealousy and Sexual Coercion.

Psychopathic men sometimes direct sexual aggression toward prospective female partners (e.g., using sexually aggressive behavior on a first date) and such behavior may be indicative of a high mating effort strategy. Less research has investigated the role of psychopathy in men's use of sexually coercive behaviors in their intimate relationships (e.g., sexual aggression directed toward one's long-term romantic partner) or the relationship processes that might facilitate such behavior. The present study surveyed 143 heterosexual dyads to assess men's psychopathic traits and their relation to self-reports and partner-reports of men's jealousy and partner sexual coercion. Results across informant models showed that men's psychopathy was associated with higher suspicious jealousy and partner sexual coercion. Suspicious jealousy also indirectly linked men's psychopathic traits with engaging in partner sexual coercion. The findings provide novel insights using dyadic data and suggest that both psychopathy and jealousy are important for men's engagement in partner sexual coercion.

HIV Related Behaviors Among Male Partners of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Rural South Africa.

Improving men's engagement in HIV prevention is not only essential for reducing their own HIV risk but also the risk of transmitting HIV to their female partners. We conducted a cross-sectional survey using a population-based sample of men (age 18-30) who reported being a partner of an adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa (N = 2827). We used logit-binomial regression models to examine associations among men's partnership characteristics, HIV risk perceptions, and HIV-related behaviors and examine differences by male partner age (younger men (18-24) vs. older men (25-30)) and age difference between partners (age-concordant (< 5 years) vs. age-disparate (≥ 5 years)). Most men reported inconsistent condom use (85%) and nearly half reported engaging in transactional sex (48%). Older men were just as likely as younger men, and men with age-disparate and age-concordant partners, to inconsistently use condoms, engage in transactional sex, and perpetrate intimate partner violence. Most men also reported a very high interest in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) (77%) and half reported having an HIV test in the past year (50%). There were no differences by male partner age or age difference between partners in PrEP interest but older men and men in age-discordant relationships were more likely than younger men and men in age-concordant relationships to have an HIV test in the past year. Male partners of AGYW in South Africa are engaging in HIV-related behaviors and need HIV prevention interventions to reduce risk for themselves and their female partners.

Designing Supportive e-Interventions for Partners of Men With Prostate Cancer Using Female Partners' Experiences: Qualitative Exploration Study.

BackgroundPartners of men living with prostate cancer (PCa) can experience a variety of unmet needs that are largely unaddressed by health care professionals. There is limited evidence to suggest which approach may be most effective in supporting partners’ unmet needs and further research is required to determine how to provide support to caregivers and how technology solutions can be designed.ObjectiveThis study aims to explore the experience of partners of men living with PCa and their perceptions of the potential role of information technology in supporting their needs.MethodsA qualitative descriptive methodology using focus groups and phone interviews was used. Purposive sampling was used to recruit people attending a national conference supported by a national PCa organization. Interview guides were adapted from an existing evidence-based smartphone app for caregivers of people with colorectal cancer. Sessions were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. A coding framework was developed, and transcripts were coded line by line into the framework. Codes within the framework were grouped into descriptive categories that were then developed into analytical themes.ResultsA total of 17 female partners participated in the study, with an average age of 64 (SD 8.5) years. The following two main themes emerged: In the first theme, that is, How technology can be shaped to support female partners of prostate cancer survivors, the content and design of the smartphone app was discussed in addressing female partners’ needs. The following four subthemes were developed: getting support from social networks and resources, the lack of relevant information, demystifying future care expectations during and following a PCa diagnosis, and delivering the smartphone app—to whom and from whom. In the second theme, that is, The benefits and barriers of technology, the suitability of smartphone apps as a supportive modality for female partners was described. This included three subthemes: the smartphone app as an appropriate modality for supporting female partners, the future anticipated benefits of using the smartphone app, and concerns for storing and accessing information on the internet.ConclusionsA smartphone app may be a suitable modality for providing information and peer support to female partners of men living with PCa. There is a need to provide peer support for female partners in future interventions to ensure that female partners’ intimacy and daily practical needs are met.

Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi

The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women’s access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women’s FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18–25 years), 10 men in partnerships with women, and 14 people in women’s social networks across 7 low-income wards in Nairobi, Kenya. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 response measures changed the contexts of normative influence on FP: financial insecurity, increased time at home with husbands or parents, and limited access to seek the support of health workers, friends, and other people in their social network affected how women negotiated FP access and use within their homes. Our study underscores the importance of ensuring FP is an essential service in a pandemic, and of developing health programs that change norms about FP to address the gendered burden of negotiating FP during COVID-19 and beyond.

HIV Prevention Responsibility Beliefs Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the PrEP Era.

Beliefs regarding responsibility for preventing HIV transmission may differ between individuals and their sexual partners. We assessed HIV prevention responsibility beliefs among men who have sex with men (MSM) participating in the 2017 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance survey. MSM were recruited using time-location sampling at clubs, bars, and street locations in San Francisco. HIV prevention responsibility beliefs were assessed on a four-point scale (1 = strongly disagree to 4 = strongly agree). Associations were assessed using generalizing estimating equations to adjust for behaviors within multiple partnerships. A total of 316 HIV-negative men and 76 HIV-positive men reported on 1336 partnerships. HIV-negative compared with HIV-positive men had higher endorsement of mutual responsibility (mean 3.7 vs. 3.5; P < 0.01). Both groups had similar levels of endorsing responsibility on the HIV-negative or HIV-positive partner. HIV-positive men endorsing equal responsibility were more likely to know their partner's HIV status (P < 0.01) and less likely to have serodiscordant condomless anal intercourse (CAI) (P < 0.01) than men who did not endorse equal responsibility. HIV-negative men in partnerships with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use were more likely to know their partner's HIV status (P = 0.02) and have serodiscordant CAI (P = 0.04) than men not in partnerships with PrEP use. HIV-negative and HIV-positive men accept responsibility for preventing HIV. The finding that HIV-negative men in partnerships with PrEP use who engage in serodiscordant CAI is concerning because they are still at risk for other sexually transmitted infections, which are presently at elevated levels in San Francisco and other US cities.

Effects of sexual imprinting on partner preference for personality traits in Chinese gay men

Sexual imprinting refers to the phenomena where an individual's mate selection behavior is influenced by the characteristics of their parents in the early stages of life. Previous studies revealed that heterosexual men and women prefer partners with personality traits similar to their opposite-sex parents, indicating the sexual imprinting effects in personality preferences. This study aims to examine whether there are sexual imprinting effects on partner preferences for personality traits in gay men. We tested whether parent-child relationship in childhood (before 12 years old) and/or adolescence (12–18 years old) moderated the sexual imprinting effects. Participants (N = 311) were asked to assess their parents' and ideal partner's Big Five personality traits and gender roles, respectively. The parent-child relationships in childhood and adolescence were also assessed. The results revealed that gay men's ideal partner's traits were similar to their fathers' traits for emotional stability, similar to their mothers' traits for agreeableness and openness, and similar to both their fathers' and mothers' traits for conscientiousness. The ideal partners' gender roles were similar to both mothers' and fathers' instrumentality and expressiveness. The relationship quality with the mother in childhood modulated the mating effects in conscientiousness and expressiveness. The relationship quality with the father in adolescence modulated the mating effects in masculine instrumentality. The findings indicated the sexual imprinting effects on partner preference for personality traits in gay men and both father's and mother's personality traits in shaping gay's partner preference.

Men building better relationships: A scoping review

Health outcomes linked to men's relationships have the potential to both promote and risk the well-being of males and their families. The current scoping review provides a synthesis of men's relationship programs (excluding criminal court mandated services) in Australia, Canada and the UK to distil predominant program designs, access points, delivery modes and evaluative strategies. Databases CINAHL, Medline, Psychinfo, and Web of Science were searched for eligible articles published January 2010 and June 2020. The inclusion criteria consisted of empirical studies focussed on relationship programs for men. The review identified 21 articles comprising 8 focussed on Fathering Identities as the Catalyst for Relationship Building and 13 targeting Men's Behaviour Change in Partner Relationships. Findings highlight the prevalence of group-based, in-person programs which men accessed via third party or self-referrals. Fathering programs highlighted the impact of men's violence on their children in appealing to attendees to strategize behavioural adjustments. Men's partner relationship programs emphasised self-control amid building strategies for proactively dealing with distress and conflict. Program evaluations consistently reported attendee feedback to gauge the acceptability and usefulness of services. That most men attending fathering and partner relationship programs were referred as a result of domestic violence and/or intimate partner violence underscores men's reticence for proactively seeking help as well as the absence of upstream relationship programs. There are likely enormous gains to be made by norming boys and men's relationship programs to prevent rather than correct violent and/or abusive behaviours.

برامج المرأة فی القنوات الفضائیة الدینیة- دراسة مقارنة على قناتی أزهری، CTV

نال الإعلام الديني نصيبا اهتمام القنوات المتخصصة وحصد اهتمام الجمهور، أيضا لنجد العديد القنوات الفضائية الدينية الإسلامية والمسيحية على الساحة الإعلامية سعت کل منها جاهدة لاستقطاب الجمهور في إطار المنافسة الشديدة. مما جعلها ظاهرة خصبة للدراسة لما للدين علاقة مباشرة ومؤثرة في الحياة السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية في شئون الدول، ولما له دور مؤثر في حياة قطاعات الجمهور المختلفة خاصة المرأة التي هي نصف المجتمع وشريک الرجل في مسيرة الحياة. تمثلت مشکلة الدراسة في رصد برامج المرأة المقدمة في القنوات الفضائية الدينية باختلاف تياراتها سواء الإسلامية والمسيحية؛ للوقوف على طبيعة المضامين الإعلامية المقدمة لها وأجندة القضايا التي تقدمها تلک البرامج وأساليب معالجتها وأکثر القضايا بروزا وأکثر الأفکار بروزا. وذلک عبر المقارنة بين ما يقدم في قناة أزهري وهي إحدى القنوات الدينية الإسلامية وقناة وهي إحدى القنوات الدينية المسيحية. برنامج من يجدها أکثر ترکيزا على الاهتمام بجمال المرأة برنامج صالون الهوانم حيث حققت فقرات الموضة والجمال المرکز الأول، مناصفة مع تربية الأطفال بنسبة بلغت 28% بينما حققت 17.4% في برنامج صالون الهوانم . انفراد برنامج من يجدها بتقديم فقرات دينية تخاطب المرأة بشکل مباشر، حيث قدم المنظور الديني لفضيلة عمل المرأة ونماذج التفسيرات لسفر الأمثال بالإنجيل وتناول سيرة القديسات الفاضلات في إطار أنه برنامج في قناة متخصصة دينية.. اهتم برنامج صالون الهوانم منفردا بموضوع عمل المرأة في المرکز الأول بنسبة 26% إجمالي المعالجات الإعلامية أثناء فترة الدراسة حيث عرض لنماذج عديدة السيدات العاملات الناجحات Women’s Programs on Religious Satellite Channels - A Comparative Study on Azhari, Religious media received a share of the attention of specialized channels and also garnered the attention of the public, to find many religious and Islamic satellite channels on the media scene, each of them striving to attract the audience in a context of intense competition. Which made it a fertile phenomenon for study because of the direct and influential relationship of religion in political, economic and social life in the affairs of countries and because of its influential role in the lives of different sectors of the public, especially women, who are half of society and the man's partner in the course of life the programs of women presented in religious satellite channels with their different streams, both Islamic and Christian, to determine the nature of the media contents presented to them, the agenda of issues presented by those programs, methods of dealing with them, most prominent issues and most prominent ideas. This is by comparing what is presented in the Azhari channel, which is one of the Islamic religious channels, and the CTV channel, which is one of the Christian religious channels The program for those who find it more focused on caring for the beauty of women than the Al-Hawanim Salon program, where the fashion and beauty items achieved first place in 50% with child-rearing, while it achieved 17.4% in the Al-Hawanim Salon Program. The program for those who find her to provide religious passages directly to women, in which he provides a religious perspective on the virtue of women’s work and examples of interpretations of the travel of proverbs in the Bible, and addresses the biography of the holy saints in the framework that it is a program in a specialized religious channel .. The Al-Hawanim Salon program focused solely on the topic of women's work in the first place with 26% of the total media treatments during the study period, where it presented many examples of successful working women

No evidence that partnered and unpartnered gay men differ in their preferences for male facial masculinity.

Women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces have been extensively studied. By contrast, little is known about how gay men respond to masculine facial characteristics. One area of disagreement in the emerging literature on this topic is the association between gay men's partnership status and masculinity preference. One study found that partnered gay men showed stronger preferences for masculine faces than did single gay men, while another study found that partnered gay men showed weaker preferences for masculine faces than did single gay men. We re-examined this issue in a sample of 618 gay men, finding no significant difference between partnered and single gay men's masculinity preferences. Together with the mixed previous findings, our null result suggests that the effect of partnership status on gay men's face preferences is not robust.

Brief Report: Sexual Mixing Patterns by HIV Status and PrEP Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men Partnerships in Melbourne, 2011-2018.

Sexual mixing between HIV-positive, HIV-negative, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users among men who have sex with men (MSM) is an important determinant of the incidence of infection. There have been very limited studies examining the patterns of sexual mixing in relation to HIV status and PrEP use in the era of PrEP. Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC), Australia. We included all MSM partnerships attending MSHC on the same day between 2011 and 2018. A chi-square trend test was used to examine the changes in the annual proportion of partnerships by HIV serostatus in 2011-2018 and by PrEP use in 2016-2018. Of the 1765 MSM partnerships who attended MSHC between 2011 and 2018, 1.3% of the partnerships were concordant HIV-positive, 91.0% were concordant HIV-negative, and 7.6% were HIV-discordant. The proportion of HIV-discordant partnerships increased from 0% in 2011 to 12.5% in 2018 (ptrend < 0.001). In 2016-2018, only a small proportion (1.2%) of concordant HIV-negative partnerships involved both men taking PrEP, whereas 6.0% involved at least one man taking PrEP. Overall, 79.1% of concordant HIV-negative partnerships were not protected against HIV (ie, neither man taking PrEP), and this proportion declined significantly from 84.3% in 2016 to 74.0% in 2018 (ptrend = 0.001). The pattern of sexual mixing by HIV status and PrEP use among MSM partnerships has changed over time. PrEP use in both men within MSM partnerships is not common. About 79% of concordant HIV-negative partnerships were not protected against HIV as neither man taking PrEP.

He Said, She Said: Comparing Men's and Women's Descriptions of Men's Partner Violence.

More than one in three women and one in four men in the United States report victimization by intimate partner violence. Women and men often disagree about the frequency or severity of violent acts, and researchers have proposed various reasons for discordant reports. Using daily surveys and qualitative interviews, we compared men's and women's reports about men's partner aggression and examined language they used to describe their experiences. Fifteen heterosexual couples in violent relationships completed an 8-week study that involved daily telephone surveys about violent behaviors and household environment; baseline and end-of-study surveys addressing predictors and outcomes of violence; and qualitative end-of-study interviews to provide perspective about their relationships. Most participants were Latinos with low income. Relationship length was 5.5 years, median. In daily surveys, both partners reported similar frequencies of men's physical violence (4% of days), but men reported more physical violence by women than women did (8% vs. 3% of days). The qualitative analysts compared men's and women's accounts of male-to-female violence and observed gender-specific variations in style of reporting. Men used indirect language to describe their violent behavior, implied definitions of abuse, and justified their aggression. These findings have implications for clinical guidelines to screen and intervene with victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence in primary care and emergency settings. Future research should focus on perpetrators of violence and examine effective ways for health care providers to identify and manage their care.

Gender differences in the associations between relationship status, social support, and wellbeing.

Extant research suggests that having a romantic partner has more benefits, in terms of higher subjective wellbeing, for men compared to women. The primary theoretical explanation for these wellbeing differences is that men's romantic partners tend to be their primary source of perceived social support. Yet, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence that perceived social support accounts for these gender differences. The current research used a national panel study in New Zealand (N = 20,774) to test whether perceived social support mediated the relationship between having a romantic partner and wellbeing and whether these associations were noninvariant across gender. Perceived social support partially mediated the association between having a romantic partner and higher wellbeing (life satisfaction and self-esteem), and this pathway was stronger for men than it was for women. These results extend previous research by using large-scale national panel survey data to show that the stronger association between men's relationship status and wellbeing is partially due to men's stronger connection between relationship status and perceived social support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Editor's Column: “Danny in the back seat wants a cup a water”: Musings on America, Steinbeck, and the Child

Editor's Column: “Danny in the back seat wants a cup a water”: Musings on America, Steinbeck, and the Child

ФЕНОМЕН АНДРОГІННОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ

This article investigates the theme of human being to human being relations and the display of constructive or destructive forms of man and woman relations. The investigated problem is examined in the plane of androgyny culture and its modi. Modern society needs a quite different level of relations, the one that makes us human. Development of modern society puts imperatives to us that pseudo-culture, which is quite often offered to us, cannot provide. The degree of spiritual culture development is determined by people’s spiritual values development, by many-sidedness and multiplicity of spiritual potential forms realization. Main sense of such a culture is disclosed in self-expression and reflection. Development of culture is impossible without confirmation of its values on the personal level, which gives the ability to put into effect potential of uniqueness, unrepeatedness of one’s individuality, creation of qualitatively new relationships, new models of cooperation and partnership. In today’s world, human being’s self-knowledge is deepening, it includes new and new spheres of investigation, therefore relations between people, relations between genders become a new, little studied plane. Inwardly and personally rethinking manifestations of male and female energies, their interaction, aware of their work in themselves, a person can rise to a more qualitative level of being in the space of the relation to human being, gender, world, to God. Interpersonal relations are our culture of relationships, which must be human. Today, there is a plurality of pathological forms of interpersonal relationships that destroy not only communication but also the internal world of personality. Culture provides an opportunity to show all the best in a person, which is revealed through the partnership of men and women in various forms. Modern society is striving for a completely different culture of relations that could satisfy all soul and spiritual needs through humanity. Thus, people do not need to be satisfied and choose among various simulacrum that pseudo-culture offers today. Consequently, spiritual culture, which functions as a holistic entity and forms the socio-spiritual phenomenon, is an important element of society’s spiritual life. First-hand, a human being, a personality is the subject of the spiritual life of society. The whole system of purposeful activity should be aimed at creating diverse conditions for self-realization of human being’s spiritual potential, creative self-regulation, disclosure of human’s qualities and creation of new spiritual guidance.

An Examination of Men’s Wealth and Age Disparate Partnerships in South Africa: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

Evidence indicates that age-disparate sexual partnerships increase a young woman’s risk of HIV acquisition. Studies suggest that age-disparate relationships are fuelled by socio-economic disparities, with economically disadvantaged young women in sexual relationships with comparatively wealthier older men. Limited data exists on the socio-economic status of men in age-disparate relationships relative to men in age-similar relationships. This study explores whether men in age-disparate and similar-aged partnerships differ on socio-economic indicators. A 2012 nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 10,034 men was analysed. The sample was restricted to sexually active men older than 24 years old (N = 1330). The survey included information on the men’s three most recent sexual partners and three measures of socio-economic status. Multiple regression models were used to compare the socio-economic status of men in age-similar partnerships to men in age-disparate partnerships. Just less than half (44.6%) of the men were involved in only age-similar partnerships. The multiple regression results indicate that household wealth, access to essential services and employment status were not significantly associated with an increased likelihood of men engaging in age-disparate partnerships. Additionally, the relationship between men’s wealth and age disparate partnering did not vary according to geographical context. Men engaging in age-disparate partnerships do not differ with regards to their socio-economic status from men in partnerships with women of a similar age. Whilst economic disparity may prevail between males and females within age-disparate relationships, this study reveals that the men in these relationships are not economically advantaged over men in age-similar relationships.

Concordance of gonorrhoea of the rectum, pharynx and urethra in same-sex male partnerships attending a sexual health service in Melbourne, Australia

BackgroundWe aimed to describe anatomic site-specific concordance of gonococcal infections in partnerships of men who have sex with men (MSM).MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional analysis of data from MSM partnerships attending Melbourne Sexual Health Centre between March 2011 and February 2015. Logistic regression models (random effect) were used to examine the association between gonococcal infections of the urethra, rectum and pharynx. Gonococci were detected by culture at all anatomic sites.ResultsThe analysis included 495 partnerships. Of the men with urethral gonorrhoea, 33% (95% CI 18–52) had partners with pharyngeal gonorrhoea and 67% (95% CI 48–82) had partners with rectal gonorrhoea. The adjusted odds of having urethral gonorrhoea was 4.6 (95% CI 1.2–17.1) for a man whose partner had pharyngeal gonorrhoea, and 48.1 (95% CI 18.3–126.7) for a man whose partner had rectal gonorrhoea. Of the men with rectal gonorrhoea, 46% (95% CI 31–61) had a partner with urethral gonorrhoea and 23% (95% CI 12–37) had a partner with pharyngeal gonorrhoea. The adjusted odds of having rectal gonorrhoea was 63.9 (95% CI 24.7–165.6) for a man whose partner had urethral gonorrhoea. Of the men with pharyngeal gonorrhoea, 42% (95% CI 23–63) had a partner with rectal gonorrhoea and 23% (95% CI 9–44) had a partner with had a partner with pharyngeal gonorrhoea. The adjusted odds of having pharyngeal gonorrhoea was 8.9 (95% CI 3.2–24.6) for a man whose partner had rectal gonorrhoea. The crude odds of having pharyngeal gonorrhoea was 14.2 (95% CI 5.1–39.0) for a man whose partner had pharyngeal gonorrhoea.ConclusionsThese data provide the first estimates of concordance of anatomic site-specific gonococcal infections in MSM partnerships, and confirm that urethral gonorrhoea is contracted from both rectal and pharyngeal sites, and suggest that gonococci transmit between the rectum and pharynx. However, due to use of culture rather than NAAT, our analysis was not adequately powered to assess pharynx-to-pharynx transmission of gonococci.