Table 3 Sexual related behaviours among boys who have exchanged sex and boys who have never exchanged sex.
| Exchanged (n = 311) % | Never exchanged (n = 6137) % | Unadjusted odds ratio*† (95% CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of times exchanged sex | ||||
| Median | 1 | – | ||
| Mode | 1 | – | ||
| Range | 1–834 | – | ||
| Ever had sexual (vaginal) intercourse | 58.6 | 41.7 | 1.98 (1.38 to 2.84) | |
| Mean age at first sexual (vaginal) intercourse‡ (SE) | 15.4 (0.20) | 15.3 (0.09) | 1.03 (0.92 to 1.15) | |
| Mean lifetime number of sex partners (SE) | 11.7 (2.68) | 2.6 (0.19) | 1.03 (1.01 to 1.05) | |
| Ever had anal intercourse | 12.0 | 6.0 | 2.13 (1.35 to 3.38) | |
| Any sexual activity with another male | 14.6 | 6.7 | 2.40 (1.52 to 3.79) | |
| Ever had romantic attraction to another male | 26.2 | 9.7 | 3.30 (2.25 to 4.83) | |
| Ever physically forced someone to have sex | 10.1 | 1.6 | 6.96 (3.87 to 12.50) | |
| Ever been told by doctor or nurse that you have HIV or other STI | 15.0 | 2.3 | 7.51 (4.63 to 12.20) |
CI, confidence interval; SE, standard error.
*Except for the continuous variables, all correlates are dichotomous and the reference groups for odds ratios are the “0” or “no” categories.
†Odds ratios in which p<0.05 are shown in bold.
‡Among males who reported having ever had vaginal intercourse.