Sex in Australia: Heterosexual experience and recent heterosexual encounters among a representative sample of adults
Adult
Male
Adolescent
Sexual Behavior
150
Australia
Middle Aged
Health Surveys
1117 (four-digit-FOR)
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
Sexual Partners
0302 clinical medicine
5. Gender equality
616
Humans
Regression Analysis
Female
321299 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Heterosexuality
0305 other medical science
111700 Public Health and Health Services
Demography
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-842x.2003.tb00802.x
Publication Date:
2007-09-25T12:50:34Z
AUTHORS (5)
ABSTRACT
To describe numbers of opposite-sex partners, experiences of different heterosexual behaviours, and recent heterosexual experiences among a representative sample of Australian adults.Computer-assisted telephone interviews were completed by a representative sample of 10,173 men and 9,134 women aged 16-59 years from all States and Territories. The response rate was 73.1% (69.4% among men and 77.6% among women).Men reported more sexual partners than women over their lifetime, in the past five years and in the past year. 15.1% of men and 8.5% of women reported multiple sexual partners in the past year. Reporting multiple opposite-sex partners was significantly associated with being younger, identifying as bisexual, living in major cities, having a lower income, having a blue-collar occupation, and not being married. All but a handful of respondents' most recent heterosexual encounters involved vaginal intercourse and condoms were used in one-fifth of these sexual encounters. Anal intercourse was very uncommon during respondents' most recent heterosexual encounters.Patterns of heterosexual experience in Australia are similar to those found in studies of representative samples in other countries.There may be a need for interventions targeted at people with multiple sexual partners to promote safer sexual behaviour and to reduce the likelihood of transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
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