title: Childhood sexual abuse among homosexual men. Prevalence and association with unsafe sex.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Lenderking
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wold
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Losina
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Seage
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003625:Data Collection; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior