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Half Million Filipinos Engage in Homosexual Activities

Some 550,000 Filipino males and females aged 15 to 24 have experienced sex with partners of the same gender, showed a study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI).


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Some 550,000 Filipino males and females aged 15 to 24 have experienced sex with partners of the same gender, showed a study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI).

The figure comprised about 3 percent of the country's 16.5 million Filipinos aged 15 to 24 years old, and 11 percent of the five million young Filipinos who engage in premarital sex, The Philippine Star newspaper reported Saturday, citing the UPPI study.

"Eleven percent of those with premarital sex experiences are done with partners of the same sex...Really knowing that they are going to bed together, this is kind of shocking for the kind of society we have," UPPI demography professor Corazon Raymundo was quoted as saying at a forum on Friday.

The 2002 Young Adults Fertility Survey conducted by the UPPI showed that males accounted for 52.6 percent of homosexual contactengaged in by Filipino youths, while females accounted for the remaining 47.4 percent.

Most of them engage in homosexual activities while still in school, according to the survey conducted in the second quarter oflast year when close to 20,000 adolescents were interviewed.

Raymundo warned that homosexual relationship exposes the youth to the risk of contracting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases.

"There is a bigger tendency that same sex is unsafe sex. That'sa reason why I would be concerned with same-sex relationships, especially for male homosexuals," she said.


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