Situational sexual behavior

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Situational sexual behavior is sexual behavior of a kind that is different from what is usual for that person (or from what that person normally exhibits) due to a social environment that permits, encourages, or compels those acts.

For example, people who travel overseas may not have sex with prostitutes in their home countries, but do so when they visit other countries, where such activities are legal or ignored by authorities. To contrast, for those whose primary sexual identification is pedophilia, visiting foreign countries where sex with minors can be easily practiced is not situational sexual behavior.

Other examples are people in prison, the military, or other sex-segregated communities who engage in homosexual behaviors but identify as "heterosexual" outside those communities.

It should be noted that many people change their sexual behaviour in different situations. For example, men and women in university may practice bisexuality only in that environment. Experimentation of this sort is more common among adolescents, both male and female.

The pressure to prove one's heterosexuality can lead to increased sexual behaviour in adolescents. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens have half the rate of pregnancy or impregnation as straight teens (Massachusetts 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey).