Table 4 Example of analysis

“Obviously if I am talking with a man than perhaps that man has to explain a bit more to me than if I am talking with a woman. I perhaps need to allow the man to talk a bit more… and explain a bit more, descriptively. Because if it is a woman then perhaps, I think I know. “

Keywords:

The word “Obviously” shows that the speaker presents the statement as self-evident.

The word “descriptively” is used to emphasize that the speaker’s preunderstanding of men’s and women’s sexual health issues differ.

The speaker compares differences in how they communicate with patients based on whether the patient is a man or a woman as self-evident. The speaker interdiscursively links the gendered differences in communications to differences in preunderstanding of patients’ sexual health issues based on patient’s gender.

The speaker constructs differences in interactions between male and female patients in SHC as self-evident illustrating a binary perception of gender. The statement relates to the discourse on the lack of training and education on men’s sexual health among HCPs who work with men’s SHC.

“But I also think that it is our mission to make them [men seeking SHC] secure in different ways, sort of.”

Keywords:

The phrase “our mission” indicates that the speaker portrays the statement as a task that the clinic is charged with.

The word “secure” is presented as an aim for men who seek SHC.

Men seeking SHC are implicitly described as being insecure. By using the phrase “our mission” the speaker indicates that making men secure is an important part of providing SHC for men, rather than a personal opinion.

Being, feeling and making others feel secure is used by participants in descriptions of masculinity in relationships, i.e., participants notions of desirable and preferable masculinity. By presenting men seeking SHC as insecure patients are portrayed as not performing desirable masculinity, and HCPs as having a mission to change patients’ masculinity.