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Firstly, it was to explore why men who attend group sex parties engage in high-risk behaviors. Secondly, “We wanted to get some data about how these new prevention strategies might impact safer-sex behavior and attitudes among sex-party goers.” “Do gay sex parties attract men who are riskier, or does something in the environments where group sex occurs cause men to engage in riskier behavior than they typically engage in?” he asks. Recruitment advertisements were posted on a major social networking website, two social networking mobile applications for gay/bi men, on small-ad websites, and a blog listing sex parties in NYC. In order to participate in the study, you had to be at least 18 years old, have had sex with a man in the past year, identify as male or transgender, and live in the NYC metropolitan area. Participants were then asked for HIV-status (and viral load levels) and if on PrEP (and how well they adhered to regimen). (The 20 person requirement was used to exclude folks who had small, private threesomes or sex parties.) Lastly, participants were asked if they had been to a sex party with at least 20 people in the past year. Participants were then asked to rank 13 items, developed by the study team, using a five-point scale from one (strongly disagree) to five (strongly agree). Six of the items evaluated the assumptions participants had about other men at sex parties regarding their HIV, STI, and PrEP statuses. Three items explored the participants’ understanding of norms around HIV disclosure and responsibility at sex parties. Four items assessed participants’ subjective understanding of how the context of sex parties influence their own sexual risk behavior. There were 234 men who had attended sex parties in the past year: 18% reported being HIV-positive (84% of them undetectable), 27% reported being HIV-negative men on PrEP, and 55% reported being HIV-negative and not on PrEP. (Men with HIV who were detectable were dropped from the analyses.) The researchers included 211 men in the final analyses to compare HIV-positive-undetectable men, HIV-negative men on PrEP, and HIV-negative men who had never used PrEP.