Table 4.

Significant determinants of women’s sexual expression; married women ages 16–25 in Bangalore, India, 2005–2006.^£

VARIABLES (reference in parentheses)	Model 1		Model 2
	Told husband want to have sex (at midline)		Told husband do not want to have sex (at midline)
	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value
Husbands’ perceptions (at baseline)
Husbands feel it is ok if wives demonstrate:
1 form of sexual discussion and expression (0 forms)	2.799**	0.027	1.578**	0.042
2 forms of sexual discussion and expression (0 forms)	2.382*	0.055	1.190*	0.07
3 forms of sexual discussion and expression (0 forms)	2.024*	0.097	1.421**	0.038
Women’s sexual expression at baseline
Told or showed husband want to have sex (did not)	1.687***	<0.001
Told or showed husband did not want to have sex (did not)			1.882***	<0.001
General couple discussion (at baseline)
Ever talked to husband about sex – wife’s report (has not talked)	0.715*	0.080	0.481	0.252
Resources (at baseline)
Number of living children	0.055	0.798	0.515**	0.027
Household asset score – baseline	−0.112	0.580	0.403*	0.069
Constant	−5.077***	<0.001	−1.144	0.264
Observations	185		185
Pseudo R-squared	0.1870		0.1842

p values in parentheses

^***p<0.01,

^**p<0.05,

^*p<0.1

^£We report only the statistically significant (p<0.10) variables. The models also control for husband-wife age difference; marital duration; education difference; women’s report of ever openly disagreeing with husbands, preparation for first sex, work prior to marriage, perception that husband is primary source of social support; and husband has a stable job at midline.