Table 4.

Sexual practices and function among heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual female medical students

	Heterosexual		Homosexual		Bisexual
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	P value
Age of first intercourse	18.7	2.7	18.4	2.4	17.7	2.2	0.053
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Virgin (no intercourse)	163	13.5	2	3.1	3	3.9	0.003
Current sexual relationship	850	70.3	42	65.6	51	66.2	0.574
# Sex partners (last 6 months)
0	91	8.7	4	6.5	4	5.4	<0.001
1	812	77.9	43.0	69.4	45.0	60.8
2+	139	13.4	15	24.2	25	33.8
# Sex partners (lifetime)
1	244	23.6	5	8.1	4	5.5	<0.001
2–5	422	40.7	23	37.1	19	26
6–10	211	20.4	15	24.2	22	30.1
11+	159	15.4	19	30.6	28	38.4
FSFI	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Desire	3.7	1.2	3.9	1.3	4.0	1.2	0.037
Arousal	3.8	2.0	4.3	1.9	4.1	1.7	0.062
Lubrication	4.2	2.1	4.6	2.1	4.5	1.8	0.146
Orgasm	3.5	2.1	4.5	1.9	3.9	1.9	<0.001
Satisfaction	4.0	1.6	4.2	1.5	4.0	1.5	0.707
Pain	4.0	2.3	4.6	2.1	4.5	2.0	0.015
Total	24.0	8.7	26.2	9.42	25.4	7.6	0.088
How do you feel about your sexual function at this time?	N	%	N	%	N	%
Sexuality is not an issue for me	68	6	3	4.8	1	1.4	0.825
Satisfied, desire no change	221	19.6	16	25.8	15	20.3
Mostly satisfied, desire change	530	46.9	27	43.6	34	46
Dissatisfied, desire no change	35	3.1	2	3.2	3	4.1
Dissatisfied, desire change	217	19.2	10	16.1	15	20.3
I feel I have a sex dysfunction and desire change	58	5.1	4	6.5	6	8.1
ISL
Sex life satisfaction	21.8	5.2	21.7	5.2	21.8	5.5	0.995
Sex drive	6.1	2.8	5.1	2.6	6.5	2.6	0.067
General life satisfaction	7.9	1.7	7.7	1.3	7.4	2	0.095
Interference from disease	46	5.4	4	9.5	7	13.7	0.033
Interference from gyne problem	121	14.2	6	14.3	13	25.5	0.089
Lack of partner availability	256	30.1	17	40.5	13	25.5	0.269

FSFI = Female Sexual Function Index; ISL = Index of Sex Life; SD = standard deviation.