SURVEY TITLE: Project Hope International Survey of AIDS-Risk Behaviors
ACRONYM: PHISARB
SPONSOR: Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs.
SURVEY PURPOSE: The survey measured AIDS-risk behaviors including: general knowledge about AIDS and exposure to AIDS educational messages, sexual and drug using behaviors, and changes in these behaviors over time.
LOCATION SAMPLED: Designed to yield representative samples of the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
YEARS SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTED: 1988.
SAMPLE SIZE: United States, n=1,962; United Kingdom, n=1,833; France, n=2,294.
METHOD OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTION: In home face-to-face and self-
completed questionnaires (the sexual orientation questions were on the self-completed portion of the survey).
SEXUAL ORIENTATION QUESTIONS:
1. Indicate how many sexual partners you have had in each time period: a. Men in the last five
years, b. Men in the last year, c. Women in the last five years, d. Women in the last year.
2. In the last five years have you ever had vaginal intercourse (when a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina)?
3. In the last five years have you provided oral sexual gratification to a man (placed your mouth on a man's penis)?
4. In the last five years have you had anal sex with a man (when a man puts his penis into his
partner's anus)?
5. In the last five years have you had anal sex with a woman (put your penis into her anus)?
6. Being completely honest, how would you describe your feelings toward your own sex since the age of 15? (Choose One): a. I have absolutely never felt any sexual attraction towards someone of my own sex, b. I have felt attracted towards someone of my own sex, but never had any sexual contact with anyone, c. I have had sexual contact with someone of my own sex, but rarely, d. I have had sexual contact with someone of my own sex fairly often, e. I have only ever had sexual contact with people of my own sex.
RESULTS:
DATA ACCESS: unknown/unavailable.
ACRONYM: PHISARB
SPONSOR: Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs.
SURVEY PURPOSE: The survey measured AIDS-risk behaviors including: general knowledge about AIDS and exposure to AIDS educational messages, sexual and drug using behaviors, and changes in these behaviors over time.
LOCATION SAMPLED: Designed to yield representative samples of the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
YEARS SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTED: 1988.
SAMPLE SIZE: United States, n=1,962; United Kingdom, n=1,833; France, n=2,294.
METHOD OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTION: In home face-to-face and self-
completed questionnaires (the sexual orientation questions were on the self-completed portion of the survey).
SEXUAL ORIENTATION QUESTIONS:
1. Indicate how many sexual partners you have had in each time period: a. Men in the last five
years, b. Men in the last year, c. Women in the last five years, d. Women in the last year.
2. In the last five years have you ever had vaginal intercourse (when a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina)?
3. In the last five years have you provided oral sexual gratification to a man (placed your mouth on a man's penis)?
4. In the last five years have you had anal sex with a man (when a man puts his penis into his
partner's anus)?
5. In the last five years have you had anal sex with a woman (put your penis into her anus)?
6. Being completely honest, how would you describe your feelings toward your own sex since the age of 15? (Choose One): a. I have absolutely never felt any sexual attraction towards someone of my own sex, b. I have felt attracted towards someone of my own sex, but never had any sexual contact with anyone, c. I have had sexual contact with someone of my own sex, but rarely, d. I have had sexual contact with someone of my own sex fairly often, e. I have only ever had sexual contact with people of my own sex.
RESULTS:
- Sell RL, Wells JA, Wypij D. The Prevalence of Homosexual Behavior and Attraction in the United States, the United Kingdom and France: Results of National Population-Based Samples. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 1995;24(3):235-248. Researchers determining the prevalence of homosexuality in nationally representative samples have focused upon determining the prevalence of homosexual behavior, ignoring those individuals whose sexual attraction to the same sex had not resulted in sexual behavior. We examine the use of sexual attraction as well as sexual behavior to estimate the prevalence of homosexuality in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France using the Project HOPE International Survey of AIDS-Risk Behaviors. We find that 8.7, 7.9, and 8.5% of males and 11.1, 8.6, and 11.7% of females in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, respectively, report some homosexual attraction but no homosexual behavior since age 15. Further, considering homosexual behavior and homosexual attraction as different but overlapping dimensions of homosexuality, we find 20.8, 16.3, and 18.5% of males, and 17.8, 18.6, and 18.5% of females in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France report either homosexual behavior or homosexual attraction since age 15. Examination of homosexual behavior separately finds that 6.2, 4.5, and 10.7% of males and 3.6, 2.1, and 3.3% of females in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, respectively, report having had sexual contact with someone of the same sex in the previous 5 years. Our findings highlight the importance of using more than just homosexual behavior to examine the prevalence of homosexuality.
DATA ACCESS: unknown/unavailable.
