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Rape among women and girls presenting at a gynecological emergency department, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling, India
Author(s) -
Bhattacharyya Sanjoy K.,
Saha Shyama P.,
Pal Ranjan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.012
Subject(s) - bengal , obstetrics and gynaecology , medicine , west bengal , family medicine , library science , pregnancy , geography , socioeconomics , sociology , archaeology , bay , biology , computer science , genetics
doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.12.018 born in 75 different countries, with 466 (46.6%) born in Canada; 415 (41.5%) self-identified their ethnicity as white, 256 (25.6%) as East Asian, 183 (18.3%) as South Asian, and the rest as “other.” Of the total questionnaires distributed, 888 (67.5%) women answered the questions about anal sex and 54 (6.1%) reported they had used anal sex for birth control. Of these 54 women, 41 (75.9%) had been born in Canada and only 5 had lived in Canada for less than 5 years. They were younger and had undergone more previous abortions than the other women (Table 1). Eleven (20.4%) of the 54 reported that they disliked anal sex. Although all women are asked about previous use of contraception when they present to the clinic for abortion, until this specific question was asked, none of the staff was aware of patients who had used anal sex for birth control. The impression that this was a traditional practice used by certain immigrant groups was not confirmed since it was mostly younger, nonimmigrant women who reported that they had used anal sex for birth control. It is possible that these women were more comfortable revealing this information on the questionnaire.