Open AccessChildhood Sexual Abuse Among Homosexual Men
Author(s) -
Lenderking William R.,
Wold Cheryl,
Mayer Kenneth H.,
Goldstein Robert,
Losina Elena,
Seage George R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.012004250.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sexual abuse , odds ratio , logistic regression , demography , unsafe sex , sexual intercourse , confounding , confidence interval , cohort , child abuse , psychiatry , homosexuality , men who have sex with men , poison control , injury prevention , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , environmental health , immunology , psychology , condom , syphilis , sociology , psychoanalysis
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. KEY WORDS: sexual abuse; HIV transmission; safe sex.