Prevention, risk and desire: study on non-use of condoms

• Published in: Revista brasileira em promoção da saúde = Brazilian journal in health promotion Vol. 31; no. 1
• Main Authors: Francisco Jander de Sousa Nogueira, Andressa Kécia Menezes Saraiva, Maryane da Silva Ribeiro, Nayane Maciel de Freitas, Césario Rui Callou Filho, Caroline Antero Machado Mesquita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Fortaleza Universidade de Fortaleza - Centro de Ciências da Saúde 01-01-2018
• Subjects: Condoms; Marital status; Men; Women
• ISSN: 1806-1222; 1806-1230
• DOI: 10.5020/18061230.2018.6224

Objective: To outline the causes that led men and women not to use condoms at the last sexual intercourse with casual partners. Methods: This is a documentary study, composed of 10,175 users attended to at a Counseling and Testing Center (CTC) in a capital city of the Brazilian Northeast. Variables are marital status, sex and the reasons for non-use of condoms in sexual intercourses. Data on the retrospective period from 2012 to 2014, collected in 2015, was submitted to treatment, by means of descriptive statistics, and was quantitatively tabulated. Results: The reason for not using condoms with the last casual partner had a total of 1,372 occurrences, distributed as 984 (71.7%) in the male population and 388 (28.2%) in the female. The most prevalent reason in relation to the non-use of the condom is the dislike, presenting 442 (32.2%) occurrences in both sexes. The reason with less incidence is that the partner does not accept it, with 81 (20.8%) cases and only among women; 143 (23.3%) occurrences were found only among single men, under the effect of alcohol and drugs. Conclusion: The users of the Counseling and Testing Center investigated presented, as prevalent reason for the non-use of condoms during sexual intercourses the fact of “not liking it”, for both sexes, since men and women, regardless of marital status, have confirmed that they do not use the condom with a casual partner.