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Figure 8.4 Higher-risk Sexual Intercourse and Use of a Condomat Last Higher-risk Sex among Women and Men Age 15-24100Percent95807180604049324841445546492022015-19 20-24 15-24 15-19 20-24 15-24Higher-risk sex in past 12 monthsCondom at last higher-risk sexin past 12 monthsWomen MenNote: Higher-risk sex is sex with a nonmarital, noncohabiting partner. THMIS 2007-088.7 AGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEXUAL PARTNERSA wide gap in age between partners can lead to an imbalance in decision making and putpressure on the younger partner. Age gaps also tend to increase marital instability. This is especiallytrue among young people. Older men who take up sexual relationships with younger women will havebeen nicknamed “sugar daddies.”In the 2007-08 THMIS, to measure the extent to which young women have sexual relationshipswith older men, women age 15-19 who had sex in the 12 months preceding the survey wereasked for the age of their sexual partners. If they did not know the age of their partner, they wereasked if their partners were older or younger than they were and, if older, whether they were 10 ormore years older.As shown in Table 8.6, 8 percent of women age 15-19 who had nonmarital sex in the 12months preceding the survey had sex with a partner who was at least 10 years older. Such liaisonsappear to be more common among urban young women than among rural young women (10 and 7percent, respectively). The pattern by wealth quintile is unclear; however, women with no educationare much more likely than those with secondary or higher education to have sex with an older partner.Eighteen percent of women with no education who had sex in the 12 months preceding the survey hadsex with a man who was 10 or more years older than they were; the corresponding proportion forwomen with secondary or higher education is only 3 percent.Youth and HIV/AIDS | 103