SEX SURVEY 2006 RESULTS PART 2

NEARLY two-thirds of young people think sex education is not good enough.

The Daily Record’s Sex Survey revealed 62 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds - the last generation of schoolkids - slated the information they had received.

Only a quarter said it was good enough, with the rest unable to decide.

Just 14 per cent said it had prepared them for later life.

The survey also found more than half of Scots - 53 per cent - did not use contraception the first time they had sex.

And a third of women who replied had experienced an unwanted pregnancy because they did not use contraception. Cheryl Brother-ton was only 16 when she gave birth to a baby girl in the bath while her mother watched EastEnders downstairs.

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She was so ashamed of her pregnancy that she had kept it secret until the baby was in her arms.

Her case may be more dramatic than most but in many ways Cheryl’s is all too common of teenage sex gone wrong.

She comes from a loving home and her mother Janet always stressed the need for Cheryl to use contraception. But it wasn’t enough.

Cheryl lost her virginity at 15 to Anthony, the father of her baby and a boy she had been seeing for a couple of years.

Although our survey showed the average age Scots lost their virginity at was 17, almost a third had been 15 or under.

And, like Cheryl, around half had lost it to a boyfriend or girlfriend rather than in a one-night stand.

The 18-year-old said: “A lot of people in my class lost their virginity around the same time as me.

“It was talked about at school.

“I noticed it when I was about 14 and I did feel there was a pressure to lose your virginity to be part of the group.”

A quarter of the 55-plus age group had lost their virginity to someone they were married to or ended up married to.

But only one per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds did the same.

CHERYL remembers only the briefest of sex education lessons at school.

And she believes there should have beenmore.

The majority of those in our survey, 77 per cent, said they thought it was a parent’s job to educate children about sex.

Only 15 per cent thought it was the schools’ duty.

Cheryl said: “I will make sure that Leah knows about sex and I will tell her to use condoms to protect her from pregnancy and disease.

“I also hope that she will get a decent sex education at school.

“I realise that she might have sex no matter what I say but I hope she will have enough information to stop her being in the same situation as me.”

More than 2500 people replied to Scotland’s biggest-ever sex survey, which unlocked the secrets of what goes on behind closed doors for the first time.

Yesterday, we revealed how Scots have sex an average of 10 times a month.

And two - thirds of those who replied have had a one-night stand.

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Only a quarter of respondents felt the current sex education in schools was good enough.

Only 14 per cent believe that sex education better prepared them for later life.

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Married respondents were less likely to have used protection the first time at 36 per cent, compared to 54 per cent of singles.

The majority of those in our survey, 77 per cent, said they thought it was a parent’s job to educate children about sex.

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53 per cent of our respondents had unprotected sex the first time.

Women were more likely to have used protection the first time at 50 per cent, compared with 40 per cent of men.

News Courtesy : DailyRecord.co.uk

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