. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 6.

Published in final edited form as: Arch Sex Behav. 2017 Mar 8;46(8):2403–2415. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-0968-7

Table 2.

Prevalence of past-year and past 5-year sexlessness by gender, marital status, and race of American adults (18–89 years of age)

Current marital status	Males				Females

	Males (n)	Past-year sexless/past 5-year sexless (%)	OR (95% CI)^a past-year sexless	OR (95% CI)^a past 5-year sexless	Females (n)	Past-year sexless/past 5-year sexless (%)	OR (95% CI)^a past-year sexless	OR (95% CI)^a past 5-year sexless
Married
White	3673	6.8/3.7	1.00	1.00	4120	6.5/3/6	1.00	1.00
Other race	194	6.2/4.4	ns	ns	227	3.5/2.9	ns	ns
Black	334	9.0/4.8	1.66 (1.02–2.70)^*	ns	351	8.5/4.8	ns	ns
Never married
White	1625	25.4/16.2	1.00	1.00	1265	28.9/19.9	1.00	1.00
Other race	143	24.5/15.7	ns	ns	147	23.8/17.5	ns	ns
Black	247	8.5/5.7	0.31 (0.20–0.51)^**	0.35 (0.18–0.67)^*	518	16.8/8.6	0.58 (0.43–0.79)^*	0.39 (0.24–0.62)^**
Divorced/separated
White	989	20.6/8.0	1.00	1.00	1556	35.8/20.3	1.00	1.00
Other race	47	17.0/2.6	ns	ns	96	26.0/15.7	ns	ns
Black	172	12.8/5.6	0.55 (0.33–0.92)^*	ns	364	26.9/14.8	0.67 (0.50–0.89)^**	0.60 (0.38–0.95)^*
Widowed
White	258	64.0/40.8	1.00	1.00	1131	88.2/69.1	1.00	1.00
Other race	9	33.3/20.0	ns	ns	33	72.7/47.6	ns	ns
Black	38	42.1/20.7	0.41 (0.18–0.98)^*	ns	204	71.1/55.8	0.34 (0.21–0.53)^**	0.52 (0.32–0.84)^*

p<.05;

^**

p<.001

Adjusted for income (0–19,999, 20 K–44,999, 50 K–69,999, 70 K) and age (elderly vs. not)