Table 5.
Association between actual/desired partnered sex frequency and masturbation frequency in the past year using ordinal logistic regression
| Unadjusted model | Adjusted model | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (n) | OR | (95% CI) | p-value | aOR | (95% CI) | p-value | |
| Women | |||||||
| Partnered sex frequency in the past year | N = 1943 | ||||||
| Not at all | 37.6 (730) | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – | ||
| Less than once a month | 14.5 (282) | 2.23 | (1.70, 2.93) | < .001 | 1.91 | (1.39, 2.63) | < .001 |
| Once a month | 6.1 (118) | 2.51 | (1.80, 3.50) | < .001 | 2.17 | (1.47, 3.19) | < .001 |
| More than once a month | 28.0 (545) | 2.36 | (1.86, 3.00) | < .001 | 1.98 | (1.44, 2.70) | < .001 |
| More than once a week | 13.8 (268) | 1.83 | (1.31, 2.55) | < .001 | 1.52 | (1.02, 2.27) | .039 |
| Desired partnered sex frequency | N = 1920 | ||||||
| No change—right frequency | 21.7 (417) | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – | ||
| Much more often | 26.2 (504) | 3.68 | (2.84, 4.76) | < .001 | 3.89 | (2.98, 5.08) | < .001 |
| A little more often | 45.5 (873) | 2.31 | (1.84, 2.90) | < .001 | 2.07 | (1.63, 2.62) | < .001 |
| Less often | 6.6 (127) | 0.70 | (0.46, 1.07) | .102 | 0.81 | (0.52, 1.27) | .370 |
| Men | |||||||
| Partnered sex frequency in the past year | N = 1771 | ||||||
| Not at all | 35.0 (620) | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – | ||
| Less than once a month | 16.9 (299) | 1.27 | (0.98, 1.64) | .067 | 1.53 | (1.17, 1.99) | .002 |
| Once a month | 8.1 (144) | 1.50 | (1.07, 2.11) | .019 | 1.41 | (0.99, 2.02) | .056 |
| More than once a month | 27.9 (493) | 1.22 | (0.97, 1.54) | .093 | 1.30 | (1.00, 1.69) | .050 |
| More than once a week | 12.1 (215) | 0.88 | (0.65, 1.19) | .400 | 0.80 | (0.57, 1.13) | .202 |
| Desired partnered sex frequency | N = 1768 | ||||||
| No change—right frequency | 41.0 (725) | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – | ||
| Much more often | 30.9 (546) | 4.20 | (3.32, 5.32) | < .001 | 4.40 | (3.41, 5.68) | < .001 |
| A little more often | 26.9 (476) | 2.25 | (1.77, 2.84) | < .001 | 2.37 | (1.84, 3.06) | < .001 |
| Less often | 1.2 (21) | 1.30 | (0.48, 3.49) | .605 | 1.69 | (0.62, 4.62) | .308 |
Note Adjusted models include the following covariates: age (in years, continuous), race/ethnicity (white, non-Hispanic/black, non-Hispanic/other, non-Hispanic/Hispanic/2 + races, non-Hispanic), education (less than high school/high school/some college/Bachelor’s degree or higher), annual household income (less than $10,000/$10,000 to $24,999/$25,000 to $49,999/$50,000 to $74,999/$75,000 to $99,999/$100,000 to $149,999/$150,000 or more), sexual identity (heterosexual vs. other), currently in a romantic relationship (no vs. yes)