Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

Understanding
MSM
B. True-False Quiz: What Do You Know about MSM?
Hand out the quiz given below and ask each participant to complete it, writing
true or false beside each statement. (You also can hand out the quiz at the end
of the day and ask participants to complete it at home.) Then discuss each of the
questions, using the answers at the end of this chapter as a guide. You can also
give out the answers as a handout as a quick way of helping people understand
some of the issues.
1. Having sex with men is a learned preference. Men who have sex with men can
be taught to love only women.
2. If you are friends with MSM you will also become MSM.
3. MSM are mentally ill, but they can be cured.
4. Men having sex with men is against Buddhist religion.
5. Men having sex with men is not Khmer. It is a product of foreign/western
influences
6. Sex between two men can be motivated by love, sexual pleasure, and/or
economic exchange.
7. Men who have sex with men really want to be women.
8. MSM are all the same. You can identify MSM by the way they dress and
behave.
9. In Cambodia it is illegal for men to have sex with men.
10. MSM do not have the same rights as other people under the Cambodian
constitution.
11. Men who have sex with men have an increased risk of getting HIV and other
STIs because of the common practice of unprotected anal intercourse.
12. MSM engage in the same sexual practices as other couples.
13. MSM do not want long term partners, they only want casual sex.
14. MSM may also have sex with women.
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