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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Int J STD AIDS. 2005 Nov;16(11):739–743. doi: 10.1258/095646205774763135

Table 2:

Male condom use in the past 3 months by sexual identity

Race/Ethnicity No sex* Homosexual Heterosexual Bisexual
Reported percentage of partners who respondents never use condoms with
African American 52.6 40.0 60.2 37.7
Hispanic 37.5 45.9 44.8 33.3
Asian 46.2 20.0 37.5 14.0
White 11.1 25.0 26.6 23.8
(Race/ethnicity difference for heterosexual behavior, p<.001)
Reported difficulty of using a condom during sexual contact, percentage responding “very difficult”
African American 52.6 13.3 27.3 21.3
Hispanic 37.5 44.7 38.2 40.0
Asian 38.5 20.0 25.0 9.3
White 33.3 35.7 19.4 22.2
(Race/ethnicity difference for heterosexual and bisexual behavior, p<.001)
Reported response of sexual partners to being asked to use condoms during sexual contact, percentage who “never, rarely disagree”
African American 47.4 13.3 31.0 37.5
Hispanic 65.2 39.5 43.0 37.8
Asian 61.5 60.0 43.1 42.2
White 11.1 25.0 35.5 44.4
(Race/ethnicity difference only for homosexual behavior, p<.05)
*

In past 3 months