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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2016 Jul 11;29(2):231–238. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1204421

Table 2. Sexual behaviors and sex work-related measures among male sex workers, Chennai, India (N=100).

Overall
(n=100)
Income from sex work only
(n=41)
Other income
(n=59)
Chi-Square test statistic p
Median (IQR)
Years doing sex work 5.0
(2.3-10.0)
4
(2-8)
7
(2.6-10)
2.48 .116
Typical monthly income from sex work, in thousands of Rupees 3
(2-8)
8
(5-15)
2
(1.5-3)
29.97 <.001
No. of non-paying male partners, past month 2
(0-6)
2
(0-7)
2
(0-5)
0.17 .681
No. of times condomless anal sex with non-paying male partners, past month 1
(0-4)
2
(0-5)
1
(0-4)
0.52 .470
No. of paying male clients, past month 8
(3-15)
10
(6-20)
6
(3-10)
5.73 .017
No. of times condomless sex with paying male clients, past month 7
(4-15)
8
(6-20)
5
(3-10)
7.09 .008
%
Ever been offered more money to NOT use condom 69.4 77.5 63.8 2.09 .148
Difficulty using condoms with non-paying partners 0.61 .739
 Yes 55.0 58.5 52.5
 No 26.0 21.9 28.8
 Don't Know 19.0 19.5 18.6
Difficulty using condoms with clients 0.41 .816
 Yes 66.7 70.0 64.4
 No 21.2 20.0 22.0
 Don't Know 12.1 10.0 13.6
Sex with Most Recent Client
Median (IQR)
Rupees paid for most recent sex act 350
(150-600)
400
(200-800)
300
(100-500)
0.78 0.376
%
During this sexual act, which of the following occurred?
 Receptive oral sex 64.0 68.3 61.0 0.56 0.456
 Insertive oral sex 9.0 17.1 3.4 5.53 0.019
 Receptive anal sex 70.0 73.2 67.8 0.33 0.564
 Insertive anal sex 6.0 9.8 3.4 0.088
Knowledge of client HIV status during most recent sex act 0.78 0.677
 Client did NOT have HIV 51.0 46.3 54.2
 Client did have HIV 3.0 2.4 3.4
 Did NOT KNOW HIV status of client 46.0 51.2 42.4
Used a condom during most recent sex act with client 14.0 12.2 15.3 0.665