Sexual Health Determinants of Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obese Sexual Minority Men

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample participants (n = 741).

		n	%	M	SD
Age				43.30	11.37
Place of residence	Large urban environment	449	60.6
	Small urban environment	214	28.9
	Large rural environment	46	6.1
	Small rural environment	32	4.3
Marital status^a	Single	359	48.4
	Married to a man	19	2.5
	Married to a woman	102	13.7
	De facto union with a man	10	1.4
	De facto union with a woman	53	7.2
	Dating a man	62	8.3
	Dating a woman	22	2.9
	Divorced	114	15.6
Educational attainment	Up to 12 years of schooling	265	35.8
	University degree	476	64.2
Occupation	Student	19	2.5
	Unemployed	40	5.4
	Working-student	10	1.4
	Employed	470	63.4
	Self-employed	150	20.3
	Retired	13	1.8
	Other	39	5.1
Self-assessed HIV status	HIV-negative	594	80.1
	HIV-positive	63	8.5
	Does not know	63	8.5
	Rather not say	21	2.9
Number of times of sexual activity/week				1.76	1.45
Level of acceptance of sexual identity (1–10)				8.42	1.82
Self-assessment of penis length (cm)				16.90	2.00
Level of satisfaction with penis length (1–10)				7.73	2.14
BMI categories^b	Normal weight	373	50.3
	Overweight	247	33.3
	Obese	121	16.4

^aIn Portugal, same-sex de facto union is legal since 2001, and same-sex marriage since 2010. ^bBMI categories are defined as normal weight (18.5 kg/m² ≤ BMI b 25 kg/m²), overweight (25 kg/m² ≤ BMI b 30 kg/m²), and obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²).