The Brook-commissioned study, funded by the Big Lottery Fund and conducted by the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton, found significant gaps in the sexual health knowledge of 16- to 21-year-olds.
Of the 1,373 young people questioned, 52 per cent believed incorrectly that chlamydia only affected women and 31 per cent thought they could catch sexually transmitted diseases from toilet seats.
The survey, The choreography of condom use, also found that 29 per cent of young men and 44 per cent of young women were having vaginal sex without a condom. And in cases where no condom or other form of contraception was used, nearly half didn't even think about it. This lack of knowledge was found to be more prevalent among young men.
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