Research indicates that people use condoms less often with a regular sexual partner than
with a casual partner because they believe condoms are not needed. This article reports …

PURPOSE:: The purpose of this study was to describe the various types of adolescent
sexual relationships and to examine the association between the type of sexual relationship …

CONTEXT: Research on adolescent condom use often focuses on the influence of parents,
peers and environmental factors. Although most sexually active teenagers have sex within …

Objective. We determined the association of demographic, psychosocial, and contextual
factors with condom use among a large community sample of at-risk adolescents recruited …

In analyses from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males, about a third of sexually
active males aged 15-19 report they used condoms consistently (ie, 100% of the time) with …

PURPOSE: To investigate the extent to which need for intimacy in relationships and motives
for sex are capable of distinguishing between adolescents who always have protected sex …

Context: Understanding whether and to what degree changes in young men's attitudes
explain increases in condom use over time can be useful in developing more effective …

Because women who want to use condoms as protection against STDs must gain
compliance from their male partners, women's use of condoms was examined within the …

Purpose: Youths in detention have been identified as a high-risk group for AIDS. To help
inform AIDS-prevention efforts targeted for these youths, we surveyed youths in detention …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the variability in young heterosexual men's
perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of condom use in their casual sexual …