Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Phone FAX E-mail: baauslan utmb. Recruitment to participate in a 6-month study examining microbicide acceptability was conducted at a school-based health clinic and local colleges in Galveston, Texas and through snowball sampling.
Their mean age was African-American girls were significantly less likely than whites and Hispanics to have had oral sex; no differences were found for anal sex. African-American girls were significantly older than whites and Hispanics when they initiated oral sex. African-American girls had a greater difference between ages of vaginal and oral sex initiation than whites and Hispanics.
Oral sex history was associated with a 6-factor increase and anal sex history was associated with a 3-factor increase in the likelihood of an STI history.
Future studies should explore these differences in greater depth in order to develop culturally specific STI prevention efforts. The importance of culturally specific interventions to promote positive sexual decision making among adolescents has been well-documented. While white adolescents progressed through a predictable pattern of non-coital sexual behaviors of kissing, above the waist touching, and below the waist touching before engaging in coitus, black adolescents engaged in very little non-coital behaviors before advancing to coitus.
Follow-up studies comparing black and white young adults have indicated that oral and anal sexual behaviors are less frequent among blacks than whites and that blacks have been found to initiate oral sex at a later age than whites despite having initiated vaginal sex at an earlier age.
