Table IV-1.3 Demographic profile of study participants: Mobility
Participants were asked to characterize their sexual identity with regard to their male-to-male sexual behavior. Only one (0.1%) reported a "gay" identity versus 22.8% who reported homosexual behavior and 27.3% reporting bisexual behavior. A total of 39 respondents (19.7%) identified themselves as a 'woman.'
Table IV-1.4 Demographic profile of study participants: Sexual Identity / Labeling
Almost one quarter of respondents (23.5%) replied that they had ever experienced harassment or coercion because of their male-to-male sex behavior.
IV-2 Behavioral and clinical findings
The reported mean age at first sex was 17.7 years. The majority of MSM had their first sexual partner between the ages of 16 and 18, with 17.3% reporting they were below the age of 16 and 32.2% were above the age of 18. In comparison, the average age of first sex among general population males in Cambodia is 22.0 years9. About half reported that their first sexual partner was male.
Table IV-2.1 Sexual History
The survey found that three fourths of the participants reported not drinking alcohol in the past month, and only 20% reported drinking alcohol the last time they had sex. During the previous twelve months, 3% used injecting drugs, and 24.1% reported non-injecting drug use.
9 Cambodian Household Male Survey, BSS IV, NCHADS 2000
Among the total MSM sample, 11.4% reported marijuana use, 8.9% Valium, 7.1% amphetamine, and 6.3% glue 6.
Figure IV-2.2 Alcohol and drug use 
Engaging in vaginal penetrative sex with a female partner during the previous 6 months was reported by 61.2% of participants. Penetrative anal sex with male partners in the 6 months prior to the interview was reported by 80.1% of respondents. A large proportion of respondents, 42.6%, reported having had penetrative sex with both male and female partners during the past 6 months.
Figure IV 2.1 Penetrative sex in the last 6 months
Participants were asked to catagorize their female and male sexual partners in the following way:
Female sex partners:
- Regular partner: spousal or cohabitational partner
- Non-regular partner: non-spousal, non-cohabitational and non commercial partner
- Female sex worker:: a partner who the respondent paid money in exchange for sex services
- Female client: a partner who gave the respondents money in exchange for sex services
Male sex partners:
- Regular partner: a partner with whom the respondent has had sex with one year or longer
- Non-regular partner: a partner with whom the respondent had had sex with for less than one year
- Male sex worker: a partner who the respondents paid money in exchange for sex services
- Male client: a partner who gave the respondent money in exchange for sex services
Among the MSM sample, 15.3% reported vaginal sex with a regular female sex partner in the past six months, 21.1% with a non-regular female partner, 33.4% with a female sex worker, and 8.4 % reported having sex with a female client.
