It targeted homosexual contacts between Navy personnel and the civilian population.

An impulse to avoid homosexual contact may blur into an impulse to condemn homosexuality.

Participants were considered behaviorally successful if they had abstained from any type of physical homosexual contact in the past year.

He resigned unexpectedly because of rumours of homosexual contacts.

More than likely, he had "orgasms derived from homosexual contact."

At the time, the age of consent for homosexual contacts was 21, based on article 248bis Dutch Criminal Code.

The age of consent for homosexual contacts was then lowered from 21 to 16 (the same as for heterosexual contacts).

Only two men in the study reported any homosexual contact; each had a single encounter in the distant past, the researchers said.

All were white males and had been involved in frequent homosexual contacts.

The risk of transmission from anal intercourse is especially high, estimated as 1.4-1.7% per act in both heterosexual and homosexual contacts.