Table 1.

Characteristics of the sample: 361 male couples

Couple-level characteristic	N	%
Sexual orientation: Both men in couple identified as gay	349	97
Race
Mixed	124	34
White	237	66
Education: Had a Bachelor’s degree or higher
Both partners	134	37
Only one partner	110	31
Neither partner	117	32
Employment status
Both partners employed	235	65
Only one partner employed	104	29
Neither partner employed	22	6
Had health insurance at time of assessment
Both partners reported yes	227	63
Only one partner reported yes	91	25
Both partners reported no	43	12
HIV serostatus
Concordant negative	275	76
Concordant positive	28	8
Discordant	58	16
Established a sexual agreement	207	57
Type of sexual agreement
Open sexual agreementa	82	47
Closed sexual agreementa	92	53
Practiced condomless anal sex (CAS) within relationship	304	84
One or both men in couple had sex outside their relationship	113	31
One or both men in couple had CAS with a casual MSM partnerb	75	66
One or both men in couple had concurrent CASb	66	58
	Mean	SD
Individual age [range: 18–68 years]	33.0	10.8
Relationship length [range: 0.25 – 35 years]	4.9	5.5
Cohabitation duration [range: .08 – 31.2 years]	5.2	5.8

Note

^aData reflects couples who concurred about the type of sexual agreement in their relationship (i.e., 174 of 207 dyads)

^bRepresents the proportion of couples who had one or both men having had sex outside of their relationship (e.g., 75 of the 113 couples; 66 of the 113 couples).