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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Sex Health. 2018 Mar 27;30(1):81–91. doi: 10.1080/19317611.2018.1429514

Table 3.

Sexual practices with female partners among male sex workers (MSWs), transwomen sex workers (TSWs) and their clients in the last 3 months, Lima, Peru 2013

Transactional1
Non-transactional2
MSW MSW weighted TSW TSW weighted MSW MSW weighted MSW clients TSW clients
N= 100 N= 181 N= 100 N = 49 N = 46
% (n) % (Cl) % (n) % (Cl) % (n) % (Cl) % (n) % (n)
Any female partner at all: 62% (62) 62% (53–71) 2% (4) 2% (0–5) 62% (62) 20% (10) 76% (35)
    At least one female partner Number of female partners, mean (Cl) 18% (11) 23% (8–50) 100% (4) 100% 87% (54) 85% (70–93) 90% (9) 91% (32)
1(1–1) 1(1–1) 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 4(2–5) 4(2–6) 2(1–3) 2(1–2)
N= 11 N = 4 N = 54 N = 9 N = 32
    Any vaginal sex 100% (11) 100% 75% (3) 70% (27–94) 100% (54) 100% 100% (9) 100% (32)
        Always condom use, vaginal sex 73% (8) 73% (59–83) 67% (−) 58% (5–97) 44% (24) 48% (35–61) 78% (7) 19% (6)
    Any anal sex 64% (7) 54% (28–79) 75% (3) 80% (12–99) 59% (32) 54% (32–74) 56% (5) 44% (14)
        Always condom use, anal sex 71% (5) 71% (42–89) 67% (−) 74% (5–99) 50% (16) 55% (30–77) 80% (4) 50% (7)
    Overall practices
        Only vaginal sex 36% (4) 46% (21–72) 25% (1) 20% (1–88) 41% (22) 46% (26–68) 44% (4) 56% (18)
        Only anal sex 0% (0) 0% 25% (1) 30% (6–73) 0% (0) 0% 0% (0) 0% (0)
        Vaginal and anal sex 64% (7) 54% (28–79) 50% (2) 50% (18–82) 59% (32) 54% (32–74) 56% (5) 44% (14)

CI: confidence interval

1.

Clients reported a very limited number of transactional partners. Therefore, the data is not included here.

2.

No TSWs reported non-transactional female partners.