This month, a report by the House of Commons Health Committee on sexual health revealed that young men are faced with overwhelming peer pressure to become sexually active early on in life (see Numbers game, p5).
Flying in the face of hopes that sexual education had made an impact on young people, the committee revealed a range of startling statistics about the increase in sexually transmitted infections. "NHS sexual health clinics simply cannot cope with demand," says the report.
But the report also revealed that young men were being bullied by their peers to become sexually active. One young man in the report said that friends "intimidate you and try their hardest to make you an outcast" unless you "do it".
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