Hormonal Contraception Use and Sexual Frequency across Young Women's Intimate Relationships.

ABSTRACT: We examined whether hormonal contraception (HC) use predicts sexual frequency throughout and across young women's intimate relationships. From 2008-2012, the Relationships Dynamics and Social Life Study collected weekly surveys over 2.5 years, and included 893 women (aged 18-19 at baseline) who reported 2,547 intimate relationships across 32,736 weeks. Three-level logistic multilevel models assessed the weekly probability of sexual intercourse based on 1) weekly HC use (vs. nonuse) and 2) duration of HC use, both accounting for several relational and individual characteristics, including relationship duration. Women had more frequent sexual intercourse when they were using HC than when they were not (predicted probabilities .65 vs .41). The weekly probability of sexual intercourse increase

SUBMITTER: Blumenstock SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9576816 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature