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This paper features an intersectional SWOT analysis conducted at a minority-serving institution within a US Midwest urban setting, to inform the development of harm-reduction services for racial/ethnic sexual gender minority young adults. Our findings revealed the nuances of structured inequities, environmental challenges that are directly linked to access to resources and reduced opportunities to socialize within affirming spaces for racial/ethnic sexual gender minority young adults. The consequence is that those realities influenced their health and wellbeing. Our revelations rationalized the value of culturally-appropriate harm-reduction services and affirmed the distinct realities of racial/ethnic sexual gender minority young adults within the urban university setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much research on sexual deviance on university and college campuses is limited by its narrow focus on group affiliation. In this study, it is argued that prior deviance and opportunity serve as more robust predictor variables of sexual deviance. Using a sample of 304 male college students from four universities within the Ohio Valley Conference, this paper utilizes Analytic moment structures (AMOS) analyses to examine the relationship between prior deviance and sexual deviance. Results support the assumption that sexual aggression is significantly (β=.17) mediated or accounted for by opportunity. Overall, the relationships among variables lend support to the argument that alternative explanations of sexual deviance may provide a better understanding of such a complex societal problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]