RESUMO
PIP: 880 randomly selected new students and 270 graduating students at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City were surveyed between July 1990 and June 1991 during routine physical examinations on various aspects of their sexual behavior. Questionnaires were completed anonymously and confidentially. 61% of the new students and 70% of the graduating students were male. 82% of new students were aged 18-23 years and 68% of graduating students were 23-28 years old. Among new students, 37.5% of men and 2.8% of women reported having their first sexual contact by age 15, while 19.4% of the men and 78.9% of the women had never had sexual relations. 33.4% of the men reported their first sexual contact was with a prostitute. 2.8% of new students reported having been victims of sexual abuse in the past. Among new students, 6% of men and 2% of women reported at least one homosexual experience, while 24% of graduating men and 10% of graduating women did so. Among new and graduating students, respectively 18% and 9% of men and 1% and 0% of women reported having more than one regular sexual partner at the time of the survey. Among new students, 13.3% of men and 3.4% of women reported always using condoms, while 15.3% of men and 1.1% of women reported using them nearly always. 60% of graduating men and 37% of graduating women reported using condoms always or nearly always. 19% of new male students and 2.4% of new female students reported a history of sexually transmitted diseases, compared to 33% of graduating men and 7% of graduating women. 22.8% of new male students and 56% of graduating male students reported having had contact with prostitutes.^ieng