A survey of the sexual behaviour and sexual health of Australian prisoners

澳大利亚健康与关系研究电话调查最近报告了19 000多名澳大利亚人的性态度、性知识、性健康和性行为。调查中遗漏的一个群体是囚犯。然而，囚犯是性疾病的高危人群。囚犯大多来自社会上最弱势的群体：他们更有可能失业，比其他澳大利亚人受教育程度更低，收入更低，许多人患有轻微的智力残疾和或精神疾病。这项针对澳大利亚监狱囚犯的拟议调查将填补这一缺失的数据。在许多国家，囚犯是被遗忘的人群。只进行了几次囚犯健康调查。有一些针对海外监狱的性行为的调查，尽管它们大多集中在艾滋病毒的风险上，并没有像美国、英国和法国对监狱外的人进行的全国性调查那样，对囚犯的性生活进行调查。监狱本身就是一个危害人们性健康的地方。在监狱里，很多发生的性行为都不是自愿的。监狱中的性侵犯可导致严重的身体伤害以及感染包括艾滋病毒/艾滋病在内的性传播疾病的风险。虽然其中一些伤害可能严重到需要手术，但只有一小部分向当局报告。较年轻的囚犯（18-25岁）和那些身材矮小、身材不高或同性恋的囚犯受到袭击的风险更高。本研究将探讨监狱性侵犯的相关因素，并提出预防建议。

The Australian Study of Health and Relationships telephone survey recently reported on the sexual attitudes, knowledge, health and behaviour of over 19,000 Australians. One of the groups that was omitted from that survey was prisoners. Yet prisoners are a high-risk group for sexual ill health. Prisoners are mostly drawn from the most disadvantaged groups in society: they are more likely to be unemployed, they have less education and lower incomes than other Australians, and many suffer from minor intellectual disabilities and-or mental illness. This proposed survey of inmates in Australian prisons will fill in this missing data. Prisoners are the forgotten population in many countries. Only a few surveys of prisoners' health have been performed. There are some surveys of sexual behaviour in particular prisons overseas, though most of them concentrate on HIV risks and do not explore the sexual lives of prisoners in the same way as the major national sex surveys in the US, the UK and France did for people living outside prison. Prison is itself a dangerous place for people's sexual health. In prison, much of the sex that occurs is not voluntary. Sexual assault in prisons can lead to serious physical injury as well as risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV-AIDS. Although some of these injuries can be sufficiently serious to require surgery, only a small proportion are reported to the authorities. Younger prisoners (aged 18-25) and those who are small, slightly built or gay, are at higher risk of being assaulted. This study will explore the factors surrounding sexual assault in prison and make recommendations for preventing it.