Pereira, FilomenaVeiga-Branco, Augusta2018-09-242018-09-242018Pereira, Filomena; Veiga-Branco, Augusta (2018). Sexual initiation, number of sexual partners and body mass index. In I Seminário Internacional do Programa Doutoral em Sexualidade Humana: Past, present & future of sexuality research. I Seminário Internacional do Programa Doutoral em Sexualidade Humana: Past, present & future of sexuality research. Portohttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/17974There is a relationship between the onset of sexual activity, the number of sexual partners and BMI: corroborating the literature, the number of sexual partners will tend to be higher for a lower BMI, people with obesity and overweight self-report fewer of sexual partners compared with normal weight people. In addition, it was found that people with a higher education level tend to have more sexual partners. It is also suggestive that the variability of the increase of BMI to occur with the decrease in the number of partners and education level.engSexual initiationSexual frequencyBMIconference object