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DISCUSSION
This study was done among commercial bus drivers
belonging to Mushin-Ajina division of National Union of
Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Mushin Local
Government Area of Lagos state. More of the respondents
(34.75%) fell within the age range of 26-35 years with a
mean age of 34.89+10.88. Majority of the respondents
(88.56%) were Yoruba, 63.14% had a secondary school
education and 65.25% were married. Among the married,
89.61% were in monogamous marriages and 88.96% lived
with their wives.
Consumption of alcohol and smoking of hemp was found
to be commoner among the drivers in this study compared
to the result of a study among intercity commercial divers
in Ilorin, Kwara state in 2007 where less than a quarter
consumed alcohol and only 3.9% smoked hemp. 1
About 16.09% of the respondents had experienced sexual
debut before the age of 15 years, higher than the result
obtained in the 2008 National Demographic and Health
survey where only 6% of men within the general
population aged 15-24 reported sexual debut before age
15. 8
About a quarter of the sexually active respondents
(27.11%) paid for sex which is low compared to the
51.43% obtained among patients accessing treatment for
STIs in a study carried out in 6 health facilities in urban
Zvishavane, Zimbabwe in 2009. 9
Majority of the respondents had been involved in
concurrent multiple partnership (60.43%). Among the
married respondents, 44.21% have had extramarital
affairs. Majority of respondents (91.90%) were currently
sexually active and among this group, about half (50.23%)
had only one sexual partner. These results are higher than
those obtained in a study carried out in Ilie town,
Oshogbo, Nigeria among the adult population where only
23.7% of all respondents had multiple sexual relations
running concurrently and 32.1% of those married engaged
in extramarital affairs. 10
About one-fifth of respondents (18.58%) consumed
stimulants for sexual arousal among them 47.62% took
drugs for sexual stimulation (8.47% of all respondents)
which was higher compared to the result obtained in a
study carried out among clients of commercial sex worker
in Escuintla, Guatemala in which 2.2% of respondents
took drugs just prior to sex. About a quarter (26.95%) of
the respondents who take alcohol, do so before having sex
(16.10% of all respondents) this is low when compared to
findings of the study among clients of commercial sex
workers mentioned above where 85.4% of respondents
consumed alcohol just prior to sex. 11
All the respondents engaged in vaginal sex, 20.35% in anal
and 7.08% in oral which was close to the results obtained
in a study carried out among sexually active male rural-
urban immigrants in Shanghai, China in 2013 where all the
sexually active respondents engaged in vaginal sex and
8.1% in oral sex however with regards to anal sex about
one fifth of respondents in this study reported to
participated in the act which is considerably higher than
the 0.5% recorded among the Chinese. 12
CONCLUSION
This study carried out among commercial bus drivers
under the National Union of Road Transport workers
(NURTW), Mushin Lagos state revealed that one-fourth
smoked cigarette and hemp and were regular smokers.
Majority of respondents took alcohol, were regular
consumers and about a quarter took alcohol before sex.
More of the respondents were about 20 years and above at
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