Letter to the editor
(10/03/17 5:01am)
We were very interested in the article, “Underprotected: Only two-thirds of Duke students reported practicing safe sex,” in the September 11 issue of The Chronicle in which Duke students reported their sexual behaviors in a survey. Among those sexually active students, 66 percent used condoms for vaginal sex and 3 percent for oral sex. The authors were rightly concerned in reporting that condom use for anal sex dropped from 60 percent in 2012 (at time of an earlier study) to 22.7 percent in 2016. However, of this percent, it was not clear how many were men who have sex with men, the highest risk group for acquiring HIV.