We excluded: HIV‐positive men (n = 134); men who did not provide an OraSure® test in the Glasgow/Edinburgh/London surveys and did not therefore have confirmed HIV status (n = 297); men with missing data on the HIV status question in the Scotland‐wide online survey (n = 185); men who did not identify as gay or bisexual, because of the small number of responses (n = 59); and men who did not answer the question on when was their last HIV test and/or how often they tested for HIV (n = 599). Data were analysed using IBM spss 19.0 for Windows (IBM United Kingdom Limited, Portsmouth Hampshire, UK). χ 2 tests were used for bivariate comparisons. Multinomial logistic regression was conducted to compare the frequency for testing categories and binary logistic regression was used to compare men tested as part of a regular sexual health check and those tested in response to a perceived risk event. We adjusted for factors significant at the bivariate level (P < 0.05) and for demographic and behavioural differences between the surveys.