BMJ 1995;311:1163 (28 October)

Letters

Sexual behaviour of men

Review mis-stated prevalence of anal intercourse

EDITOR,--Project SIGMA (Essex) provided the data on gay men's sexual behaviour that were cited in the Public Eye programme "Sex in the Dark," which Richard Momeyer reviews.1 The data are drawn from sexual diaries (calibrated with data from interviews with the men) and were reported at a conference on behavioural interventions and HIV at the Royal Society of Medicine. The data cited by Momeyer, however, are incorrect. It is not true that 70% of gay men who engage in anal intercourse do not use condoms, as Momeyer reports. It is true, however, that 70% of acts of anal intercourse are unprotected and that 40% of acts of anal intercourse by HIV positive men are unprotected (the unit being the sexual act).

The statistics are undoubtedly high in either event, but our analysis suggests that acts of anal intercourse are fairly concentrated (half of all . . . [Full text of this article]


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