Maintenance of safer sexual behaviors and predictors of risky sex: the San Francisco Men's Health Study.
M L Ekstrand and
T J Coates
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94105.
This paper describes the sexual behavior changes made by 686gay and bisexual men in San Francisco between 1984 and 1988,focusing on the individual maintenance of this behavior changeover time. There were drastic reductions in insertive and receptiveunprotective anal intercourse over time and the vast majorityof subjects were able to maintain these changes for at least12 months prior to the last interview. A total of 12 percentof participants admitted to relapsing to unprotected receptiveanal intercourse following initial behavior change; 10 percentreported engaging in unprotected receptive anal sex during everyyear of the study period. Men were more likely to practice unprotectedanal intercourse in 1988 if at baseline they were younger, practicedunprotected anal intercourse, reported more sex partners, didnot have a close friend or lover with AIDS, and engaged in fewerother health-related behaviors.
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