Paper Title
High-Risk Sexual Behavior at a Midwestern University: A Confirmatory Survey
Keywords
- High-Risk Sexual Behavior
- Midwestern University
- Heterosexual Undergraduates
- Vaginal Intercourse
- Anal Intercourse
- Sexual Experience
- Sexual Partners
- Sexual Activity Patterns
- Sexual Health
- College Students
- Sexual Behavior Study
- Sexual Risk Behaviors
- Sexual Behavior Survey
- Sexual Practices
- Sexual Health Research
- Sexual Behavior Trends
- Sexual Behavior Comparison
- College Population
Journal
Research Impact Tools
DOI
Publication Info
Volume: 27 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 79-82
Published On
April, 1995
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Abstract
According to a 1991 study of sexual behavior based on a random sample of heterosexual undergraduates at a Midwestern university, 80% of the males and 73% of the females had experienced vaginal or anal intercourse. The average age at first vaginal intercourse was 17.2 years for both sexes. Seventeen percent of the sexually experienced males and 18% of the sexually experienced females had engaged in heterosexual anal intercourse; among these respondents, the average age at first anal intercourse was 20.3 for males and 19.1 for females. Although less than four years, on average, had elapsed since the respondents had first had vaginal intercourse, males reported an average of 8.0 lifetime vaginal-sex partners and females reported an average of 6.1. Overall, the findings from this random sample of students are similar to those from a 1988 convenience sample of the same college population.
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