Table 3.
Behavioral characteristics of vocational school students with sexual experience according to gender
| N = 501 | % | Boys N = 281 |
% | Girls N = 220 |
% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Involved in steady relationship *** | 265 | 52.9 | 119 | 42.3 | 146 | 66.4 |
| Sexual orientation | ||||||
| Heterosexual | 491 | 98.0 | 275 | 97.9 | 216 | 98.2 |
| Homosexual | 4 | < 1 | 1 | < 1 | 3 | 1.4 |
| Bisexual | 3 | < 1 | 2 | < 1 | 1 | < 1 |
| Don't know yet | 3 | < 1 | 3 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sexual behaviors | ||||||
| Vaginal sex | 496 | 99.0 | 279 | 99.3 | 217 | 98.6 |
| With steady partner(s) ** | 368 | 73.5 | 190 | 67.6 | 178 | 80.9 |
| With casual partner(s) *** | 247 | 49.3 | 178 | 63.3 | 69 | 31.4 |
| Mean no. of lifetime partners vaginal intercourse (SD) *** (n = 443, nmale = 235, nfemale = 208)1 |
5.3 (7.8) | 7.1 (9.4) | 3.3 (4.7) | |||
| Anal sex ** | 119 | 23.8 | 80 | 28.5 | 39 | 17.7 |
| With steady partner(s) * | 75 | 15.0 | 52 | 18.5 | 23 | 10.5 |
| With casual partner(s) *** | 50 | 10.0 | 42 | 14.9 | 8 | 3.6 |
| Mean no. of lifetime partners anal intercourse (SD) * (n = 99 nmale = 64, nfemale = 35)1 |
2.1 (2.9) | 2.4 (3.5) | 1.5 (1.3) | |||
| Oral sex *** | 339 | 67.7 | 167 | 59.4 | 172 | 78.2 |
| Mean no. of partners oral sex in past 12 Months (SD) *** (n = 337, nmale= 165, nfemale = 172)1 |
2.3 (4.4) | 3.3 (5.9) | 1.3 (1.6) | |||
| Testing behavior | ||||||
| Ever tested for HIV *** | 48 | 9.6 | 13 | 4.6 | 35 | 15.9 |
| Positive diagnosis for HIV | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Ever tested for other STI ** | 77 | 15.4 | 32 | 11.4 | 45 | 20.5 |
| Positive diagnosis for STI | 18 | 23.4 | 4 | 12.5 | 142 | 31.8 |
| Condom use in past 12 months | ||||||
| Always used a condom during vaginal sex with steady partner3 *** | 121 | 32.9 | 78 | 41.1 | 43 | 24.2 |
| Always used a condom during vaginal sex with casual partner4 | 143 | 57.9 | 105 | 59.0 | 38 | 55.1 |
| Always used a condom during anal sex with steady partner5 | 22 | 29.3 | 17 | 32.7 | 5 | 21.7 |
| Always used a condom during anal sex with casual partner6 | 20 | 40.0 | 17 | 40.5 | 3 | 37.5 |
* p < .05 (for gender difference); ** p < .01 (for gender difference); *** p <.001 (for gender difference)
1 Total does not add up to the total of participants reporting the given sexual experience because of missing values and case exclusion due to inconsistencies in reported number of partners (e.g. smaller number of lifetime partners than the number of partners in the past year).
2 One female respondent did not report her test result.
3 Percentage represents condom use during vaginal sex with a steady partner/number of participants that have had vaginal sex with a steady partner.
4 Percentage represents condom use during vaginal sex with a casual partner/number of participants that have had vaginal sex with a casual partner.
5 Percentage represents condom use during anal sex with a steady partner/number of participants that have had anal sex with a steady partner.
6 Percentage represents condom use during anal sex with a casual partner/number of participants that have had anal sex with a casual partner.