Wednesday, March 07, 2007

get a line

Excluding those who report no interpersonal sex experiences (oh my friends engaged in heavy intrapersonal sex are not included), 6.8 percent of sexually active Filipino men have had sexual activity with another man.

Majority of Filipino men who had had gay sex also reported at least one experience of heterosexual sex (78.2 percent), and more than half were married to a woman at the time of the survey(55.5 percent), revealing that a number of heterosexually married Filipino men have had (at least one) past experience of male-male sex.

Although majority of Filipino men who had had gay sex believe that condoms provide protection against disease (87.7 percent) and many knew of a place where condoms could be obtained (78.0 percent) (definitely not from the baiten in IUJ), only 10.1 percent reported using a condom during their first sexual experience with another man. Similar levels of condom non-use of young Filipino men during heterosexual sex have been reported elsewhere.

Dataset: Final weighted sample of 4, 766 Filipino men of ages 15-54 years old (response rate of 95 percent) was used in the analysis

Source: Manalastas, Eric. "Filipino Men's Condom Use During Gay Sex: Findings from the 2003 National Demographic and Health Survey", Philippine Population Review, Vol. 5 No. 1, January to December, 2006.

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