A (UNSW) survey at the University of New South Wales found that most young Australians do not use condoms during sexual intercourse and place themselves at risk of sexually transmitted (STI) infection.
In the past 12 months,75 per cent of the 15-29-year-olds who had a physical presence in the past 12 months had at least one non-condom experience, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Most of them (69%) did not use condoms with fixed partner sexual intercourse, and about 1% (24%) did not use condoms with non-fixed partner sexual intercourse.
It is disturbing that the higher the number of, sexual partner, the more likely young people are to use condoms at sexual intercourse. Of the young people who have had sexual behavior with more than five people in the past 12 months, nearly 2 or 3, or 66 per cent, do not use condoms.
Dr. Adam (Philippe Adam) of the Center for Social Research on Health at the University of New South Wales, (Centre for Social Research in Health), lead author of the survey, said it was common among young people not to use condoms in, sexual intercourse. But contrary to most speculation, this is not due to a lack of knowledge of sexually transmitted infections in young groups.
Dr. Adam pointed out that the main reason why young people do not like to use condoms is that there are insufficient social norms on condom use. "in other words, not all young people think their sexual partner will want them to use condoms."
The survey, funded by the Federal Ministry of Health, interviewed 2300 Australians between the ages of 15 and 29 in order to master the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of young people about sexual health.
The survey found that, while most of the young people were aware of the increase in the number of sexually transmitted infections, only 58 per cent had been examined by sexually transmitted infections or HIV (HIV), of which only 36 per cent of those who had been examined in the past year.
In addition, there were significant gender differences in the attitude of sexy staining. Young women have a higher proportion of regular STIs than men. In order to address the gender gap in venereal disease testing, Dr. Adam said, there is a need to increase the promotion of sexual health knowledge among young heterosexual men with more sexual partner.