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 |