worrying facts

taken from the straits times online:

July 25, 2007
Youths at high risk of dangerous sexual practices
YOUNG Singaporeans are becoming more sexually active and it seems they may be practicing dangerous sexual practices.

That's according to a survey by pharmaceutical company Bayer Schering Pharma Singapore and Youth.SG an online youth portal.

The study showed that 13 per cent of youths aged between 16 and 23 are sexually active.

Within this group, 4 per cent have multiple partners.

The sexual health survey, conducted between April and June this year covered 600 youths.

While many participants indicated a high awareness of safe sex practices, it seems that there is still a high chance that those who are sexually active do not use proper protection.

Of the sexually active lot, 23 per cent said they did not use any contraceptive methods and only half said they use condoms.

A mere six per cent said they were on birth control pills.

Health experts say that a combined condom and oral contraceptive sexual responsibility approach is necessary in order to tackle high abortion rates and sexually transmitted disease cases.

From 2001 to 2005, there was an average of 1,500 teen abortions every year, making up about 12 per cent of total abortions annually.

In a separate survey conducted by the Ministry of Health in March, it was discovered that 678 youths aged 10 to 19 had sought help for sexually transmitted diseases - a spike from the 256 figure recorded in 2001.

With an upward trend of harmful sexual practices among Singaporean youths, health experts and government officials are seeing a need to educate teens about the right practices and means to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and STDs.

Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports Teo Ser Luck said: 'We'll continuously engage MOE to come up with different educational programmes and projects and make it a bit more structured within the schools and also for the young people.'

However, he added that parents were ultimately the best people to talk to their children about initmate issues, such as sex.

One of the initiatives targeted at educating young people was the 'Say Yes!' to sexual responsibility cartoon design contest which involved participants from tertiary institutes.

Organised by Youth.SG and Bayer, the contest's objective was to highlight the various misconceptions youths had about sex.
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BELOW IS NOT TAKEN FROM ANYWHERE.

having fun-merely humans.
careless fun-dumb & ignorant humans.
'accidents' and 'eliminating' it-both combined makes u a monster.

have sex-ok, being careless & ignorant-ur pasal, eliminating lives?-try taking ur own instead.