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- Title
Condom Use Increase in Norway Appears Related More to Contraception than to Disease Prevention.
- Authors
Mahler, K.
- Abstract
The article reports on a research study that was conducted to examine women's sexual behavior in Norway, with respect to the use of condom as a contraceptive rather than preventing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Two surveys were conducted for this study in 1987 and 1992, involving 606 and 469 women respectively which showed that there was a 9% increase in the number of women condom users. Women who had a single lifetime partner were found to be more likely to use condoms than those who had more sex partners. Women who had a history of STD were less likely to have used a condom than those who never had such diseases. Researchers concluded that condom use was primarily influenced by contraceptive need rather than protection against STDs.
- Subjects
NORWAY; CONDOM use; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; CONTRACEPTIVES; PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases; SEXUAL behavior surveys; CONTRACEPTION; COMMUNICABLE diseases; HUMAN sexuality
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996, Vol 28, Issue 2, p82
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136132