Sex in the city: Privacy-making practices, spatialized intimacies and the environmental risks of men-who-have-sex-with-men in South India

► Attention to spatial practices moves sexual risk beyond individual and structural perspectives. ► Sexual networks form at south Indian cruising spaces as men connect to the material world. ► Participants draw risk itineraries to conceptualize and attempt to manage dangerous situations. ► Sexual identities facilitate access to HIV prevention services but exclude non-identifying men.