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=== Number of sexual partners ===
A [[Homosexualities|1978 study]], before the [[AIDS pandemic]], found that around 28% of male homosexuals reported having more than 1000 partners and only 26% reported having
A 2007 study reported that two large population surveys found "the majority of gay men had similar numbers of unprotected sexual partners annually as straight men and women."<ref name="MedicalNews">{{cite web |title=Sexual Behavior Does Not Explain Varying HIV Rates Among Gay And Straight Men |url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82330.php |work=Medical News Today |date=September 13, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Goodreau SM, Golden MR |date=October 2007 |title=Biological and demographic causes of high HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevalence in men who have sex with men |journal=Sex Transm Infect |volume=83 |issue=6 |pages=458–462 |doi=10.1136/sti.2007.025627 |pmc=2598698 |pmid=17855487}}</ref> According to the 2013 [[National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles|NATSAL]] (a representative population study in the UK) MSM typically had 17 lifetime sexual partners (median), which included all forms of sexual contact including oral and anal sex.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mercer |first1=Catherine H. |last2=Prah |first2=Philip |last3=Field |first3=Nigel |last4=Tanton |first4=Clare |last5=Macdowall |first5=Wendy |last6=Clifton |first6=Soazig |last7=Hughes |first7=Gwenda |last8=Nardone |first8=Anthony |last9=Wellings |first9=Kaye|last10=Johnson|first10=Anne M. |last11=Sonnenberg |first11=Pam |date=2016-07-07 |title=The health and well-being of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Britain: Evidence from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3) |journal=BMC Public Health |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=525 |doi=10.1186/s12889-016-3149-z |issn=1471-2458 |pmc=4936006 |pmid=27386950}}</ref> An epidemiological article in ''[[The BMJ]]'' reported that national probability surveys like the NATSAL have been found to better reflect the population of MSM but are limited by their smaller samples of MSM. [[Convenience sampling|Convenience sample]] surveys recruit larger samples of MSM but tend to over-represent MSM identifying as gay and reporting more sexual risk behaviors.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Prah |first1=Philip |last2=Hickson |first2=Ford |last3=Bonell |first3=Chris |last4=McDaid |first4=Lisa M. |last5=Johnson |first5=Anne M. |last6=Wayal |first6=Sonali |last7=Clifton |first7=Soazig |last8=Sonnenberg |first8=Pam |last9=Nardone |first9=Anthony|last10=Erens|first10=Bob |last11=Copas |first11=Andrew J. |date=2016-09-01 |title=Men who have sex with men in Great Britain: comparing methods and estimates from probability and convenience sample surveys |journal=Sexually Transmitted Infections |language=en |volume=92 |issue=6 |pages=455–463 |doi=10.1136/sextrans-2015-052389 |issn=1368-4973 |pmid=26965869 |pmc=5013102|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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