Rissel Chris E, Richters Juliet, Grulich Andrew E, de Visser Richard O, Smith Anthony M A
Health Promotion Unit, Central Sydney Area Health Service, and Australian Centre for Health Promotion, University of Sydney, New South Wales.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2003;27(2):124-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2003.tb00799.x.
To describe selected characteristics of Australian adults' regular or ongoing sexual relationships.
Computer-assisted telephone interviews were completed by a representative sample of 10,173 men and 9,134 women aged 16-59 years. The overall response rate was 73.1% (69.4% men, 77.6% women). Respondents indicated how often they had sex in the past four weeks, contraceptive use, their own and their partners' expectations about having sex with other people during their relationship, whether they had discussed these expectations with their partners and whether they had an explicit agreement about sex with other people.
85.3% of men and 89.5% of women were in a regular heterosexual relationship, among whom 81.4% of men and 89.3% of women reported contraceptive use. Men and women who had a regular partner for the past 12 months had had sex with their partners an average of 1.84 times per week in the four weeks before interview; younger people had sex more often. Most respondents expected themselves and their partners to not have sex with other people, although men were less likely than women to have discussed these expectations with their partner. Bisexually identified men and women were significantly less likely than heterosexually identified men and women to support having sex only with their regular partner. Only 4.9% of men and 2.9% of women in regular heterosexual relationships had concurrent sexual partners in the past 12 months.
Australians' attitudes to not having sex with people while in a regular relationship are highly consistent with their behaviour.
描述澳大利亚成年人正常或持续的性关系的选定特征。
对10173名年龄在16 - 59岁的男性和9134名女性的代表性样本进行了计算机辅助电话访谈。总体回复率为73.1%（男性为69.4%，女性为77.6%）。受访者表示他们在过去四周内的性行为频率、避孕措施的使用情况、他们自己以及伴侣对在恋爱关系中与他人发生性行为的期望、他们是否与伴侣讨论过这些期望以及他们是否就与他人发生性行为达成了明确的协议。
85.3%的男性和89.5%的女性处于正常的异性恋关系中，其中81.4%的男性和89.3%的女性报告使用了避孕措施。在过去12个月中有固定伴侣的男性和女性在访谈前四周内与伴侣平均每周发生性行为1.84次；年轻人性行为更频繁。大多数受访者期望自己和伴侣不与他人发生性行为，尽管男性比女性更不可能与伴侣讨论这些期望。双性恋身份的男性和女性比异性恋身份的男性和女性更不太可能支持只与他们的固定伴侣发生性行为。在过去12个月中，处于正常异性恋关系的男性中只有4.9%、女性中只有2.9%有多个性伴侣。
澳大利亚人在正常恋爱关系中不与他人发生性行为的态度与他们的行为高度一致。
