Paper Title

High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Heterosexual Undergraduates at a Midwestern University

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Stephanie A. Sanders
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June Machover Reinisch
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Mary Ziemba-Davis

Keywords

  • High-Risk Sexual Behavior
  • Heterosexual Undergraduates
  • Penile-Vaginal Intercourse
  • Penile-Anal Intercourse
  • Sexual Partners
  • Age at First Intercourse
  • Sexual Experience
  • College Students
  • Sexual Behavior Patterns
  • Sexual Activity

Journal

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DOI

DOI Icon 10.2307/2135541

Publication Info

Volume: 24 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 116-121+145

Published On

June, 1992

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Abstract

Approximately 80% of a self-selected sample of 593 heterosexual undergraduate college students studied at a large Midwestern state university in 1988 had ever experienced penile-vaginal or penile-anal intercourse. One-fifth of the 477 sexually experienced women and men said they had had heterosexual anal intercourse. The mean age at first vaginal intercourse was 17, while the mean age at first anal intercourse was about 18.5. Although less than four years, on average, had elapsed since the respondents' first vaginal or anal intercourse, females reported having had an average of 5.6 sexual partners, and males reported an average of 11.2 partners.

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