Childhood Sexual Abuse Among Homosexual Men: Prevalence and Association with Unsafe Sex

doi:10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.012004250.x

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J Gen Intern Med. 1997 Apr; 12(4): 250–253.

doi: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.012004250.x

PMCID: PMC1497098

PMID: 9127231

Childhood Sexual Abuse Among Homosexual Men

Prevalence and Association with Unsafe Sex

William R Lenderking, PhD,^1,² Cheryl Wold, MPH,³ Kenneth H Mayer, MD,^4,⁵ Robert Goldstein, MPH,⁴ Elena Losina, MS,⁶ and George R Seage, III, MPH, DSc^3,^6,⁷

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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: sexual abuse, HIV transmission, safe sex

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