Table 3.
Prevalence rates for sexual behavior online and in-person among adolescent cisgender women (n = 2,823)
| Sexual behavior | Heterosexual (n = 1,842) | Lesbian, gay, queer (n =377) | Bisexual (n = 456) | QUO (n = 148) | |||
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| % (n) | % (n) | aCOR (95% CI) | % (n) | aCOR (95% CI) | % (n) | aCOR (95% CI) | |
| Sexual conversation in the past year (any) | 14.5% (271) | 43.5% (185) | 4.3 (2.7, 6.7) | 45.1% (240) | 5.0 (3.6, 6.8) | 19.9% (31) | 1.6 (1.0, 2.6) |
| Yes, in-persona | 5.0% (92) | 16.5% (64) | 3.4 (1.8, 6.2) | 17.3% (89) | 4.0 (2.6, 6.0) | 5.8% (10) | 1.3 (0.6, 2.9) |
| Yes, onlinea | 3.6% (70) | 19.9% (87) | 6.2 (3.5, 10.7) | 15.5% (101) | 4.9 (3.2, 7.6) | 6.7% (13) | 2.1 (1.1, 4.0) |
| Yes, all other ways (text messaging, phone, some other way)a | 12.6% (231) | 36.1% (154) | 3.7 (2.3, 5.9) | 39.0% (207) | 4.5 (3.3, 6.3) | 15.0% (24) | 1.4 (0.8, 2.3) |
| Sexual conversation with someone 5 or more years older | 0.5% (9) | 1.9% (5) | 3.8 (0.6, 26.0) | 1.3% (8) | 2.9 (0.8, 10.3) | 0.8% (2) | 2.1 (0.4, 9.8) |
| Shared a sexual picture of oneself in the past year (any) | 7.6% (131) | 23.5% (98) | 3.5 (2.1, 5.9) | 23.6% (122) | 3.8 (2.6, 5.5) | 8.9% (13) | 1.3 (0.7, 2.5) |
| Yes, in-persona | 1.1% (21) | 2.9% (14) | 2.4 (0.8, 7.0) | 6.1% (27) | 5.8 (2.6, 12.6) | 0.4% (1) | 0.5 (0.1, 3.4) |
| Yes, onlinea | 1.8% (34) | 6.4% (31) | 3.3 (1.5, 7.5) | 7.7% (51) | 4.5 (2.5, 8.1) | 2.4% (3) | 1.4 (0.4, 5.2) |
| Yes, all other ways (text messaging, some other way)a | 6.0% (100) | 16.6% (69) | 2.9 (1.7, 5.2) | 15.5% (82) | 2.8 (1.8, 4.4) | 7.3% (11) | 1.3 (0.7, 2.6) |
| Shared sexual picture with someone 5 or more years older | 0.3% (7) | 2.5% (6) | 7.0 (1.4, 36.0) | 0.9% (4) | 2.5 (0.5, 13.8) | 0.0% (0) | NC |
| Any sex (oral, penetrative, vaginal and/or anal) ever | 20.9% (386) | 54.0% (191) | 4.3 (2.6, 7.0) | 54.6% (235) | 5.3 (3.8, 7.5) | 24.0% (30) | 1.5 (0.9, 2.4) |
| Met one of the two most recent sexual partners onlineb | 10.2% (33) | 14.5% (24) | 1.5 (0.5, 4.3) | 11.0% (22) | 1.2 (0.5, 2.5) | 5.1% (2) | 0.5 (0.1, 2.3) |
Data were collected online between August 2010–January 2011.
a
Categories are not mutually exclusive; column percentages will sum to over 100%
b
Among youth who have had sex
aOR = adjusted odds ratios generated from multinomial logistic regression. Covariates include age, self-reported dishonesty in completing the survey, and being alone or not when completing the survey. Non-GB men are the reference group.
NC = Not calculable due to small cell sizes; QUO = questioning, unsure, and youth of an ‘other’ sexual identity
Statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) comparisons are bolded. Borderline significant (p ≤ 0.10) comparisons are italicized.