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Childhood sexual abuse among homosexual men. Prevalence and association with unsafe sex.

J Gen Intern Med. 1997 Apr;12(4):250-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/97272525
Lenderking WR; Wold C; Mayer KH; Goldstein R; Losina E; Seage GR 3rd; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,; MA, USA.

Abstract: Of 327 homosexual and bisexual men participating in an ongoing cohort study pertaining to risk factors for HIV infection who completed a survey regarding history of sexual abuse, 116 (35.5%) reported being sexually abused as children. Those abused were more likely to have more lifetime male partners, to report more childhood stress, to have lied in the past in order to have sex, and to have had unprotected receptive anal intercourse in the past 6 months (odds ratio 2.13; 95% confidence interval 1.15-3.95). Sexual abuse remained a significant predictor of unprotected receptive anal intercourse in a logistic model adjusting for potential confounding variables.
Keywords: *Bisexuality/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *Child Abuse, Sexual/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *Homosexuality, Male/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA *HIV Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGYKWDbisexuality/statistics&numerdataKWDchildabuse,sexual/statistics&numerdataKWDhomosexuality,male/statistics&numerdataKWDhivinfections/epidemiology
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