Sexual practices Kothi Mean/%
(n=275)
Panthi Mean/%
(n=40)
Double-decker
Mean/%
(n=168)
p-value Total Mean/%
(n=483)
Commercial sexual practices          
Ever had transactional sex (sold or bought) 82.6 (227) 52.5 (21) 67.3 (113) <0.001 74.7 (361)
Sold sex to males 76.4 (210) 12.5 (5) 60.1 (101) <0.001 65.4 (316)
Mean male clients past week (SD) 8.5 (9.0) 4 (2.9) 6.4 (7.8) 0.021 7.7 (8.6)
Condom use at last sex with male clients 88.1 (193) 70.0 (7) 87.6 (92) 0.239 87.4 (292)
Consistent condom use (always) in commercial sex 59.8 (131) 60.0 (6) 53.3 (56) 0.537 57.8 (193)
Sold sex to females 1.5 (4) 5.0 (2) 4.8 (8) 0.066 2.9 (14)
Mean female clients past week (SD) 1.3 (0.5) 1 (0.0) 1.3 (0.7) 0.525 1.2 (0.6)
Condom use at last sex with female clients 0.0 (0) 50.0 (1) 87.5 (7) NR* 57.1 (8)
Mean age at start of sex work (SD) in years 19.8 (4.6) 22.4 (4.3) 20.9 (4.5) 0.915 20.3 (4.6)
Mean duration in sex work (SD) in years 7.2 (5.0) 3.3 (2.5) 5.9 (5.9) 0.006 6.7 (5.3)
Bought sex from males 9.1 (25) 22.5 (9) 16.1 (27) 0.015 12.6 (61)
Bought sex from females 1.8 (5) 7.5 (3) 1.8 (3) 0.110 2.3 (11)
Non-commercial sexual practices          
Currently having non-commercial sex partner(s) – male or female 69.1 (190) 82.5 (33) 78.0 (131) 0.047 73.3 (354)
Currently have non-commercial male partner(s) 64.4 (177) 70.0 (28) 74.4 (125) 0.086 68.3 (330)
Mean male partners at present (SD) 2.6 (2.7) 3.0 (3.0) 3.0 (2.8) 0.709 2.8 (2.7)
Condom use at last sex with male partner 70.5 (134) 57.6 (19) 77.1 (101) 0.072 71.8 (254)
Consistent condom use (always) in non-commercial sex 45.8 (87) 33.3 (11) 51.9 (68) 0.146 46.9 (166)
Currently have non-commercial female partner(s) 20.4 (56) 60.0 (24) 28.6 (48) <0.001 26.5 (128)
Mean female partners at present (SD) 1.1 (0.5) 1.8 (1.6) 1.1 (0.4) <0.001 1.3 (0.8)
Condom use at last sex with female partner 10.0 (19) 39.4 (13) 13.7 (18) <0.001 14.1 (50)
Gender of sexual partners          
Had sex with females in past 3 months 32.4 (89) 70.0 (28) 51.8 (87) <0.001 42.2 (204)
* p-value not reported because of insufficient cell size (n<2).
Table 2: Commercial and non-commercial sexual practices of HR-MSM in study by sexual-identity, 2008-9.
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