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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 03:33
The number of young people taking the pill or using a condom is decreasing. One in five young people does not use contraception. In 2017, that was still one in ten. This is evident from a study by Rutgers and Soa Aids Nederland among 10,000 young people aged 13 to 25.
Pill use among girls and young women who have experience with sex decreased from 76 percent to 46 percent in more than ten years. On the other hand, some of them switched to the IUD, but the group that did not use any form of contraception at all also increased.
The majority give the reason that they do not want hormones in their body. Despite declining pill use, the number of young people dealing with an unwanted pregnancy has not increased.
Also less condom use
Condom use is also declining among young people. For example, 40 percent of boys without a steady relationship do not use a condom. In 2012 this was still 25 percent. Yet the number of STDs among young people is not increasing.
The researchers think that STDs may spread less quickly because the group of young people with more sex partners has decreased. It may also be that the actual number of STDs among young people is higher, because STDs do not always cause symptoms.
NOS Stories previously spoke to young people who exchanged hormones for ‘natural contraception’:
According to the researchers, young people more often have sex with someone with whom they are not in a relationship, but they do have sex several times. About one in five young people said they last had sex with such a ‘sex buddy’.
“There may be more trust within these sexual relationships than with one one-nightstand. “We trust each other” is a frequently cited reason for not using condoms,” the researchers write.
The researchers also note that young people have a different view of sex without falling in love. In 2012, a quarter of girls thought it was okay for two people to have sex without being in love, but now almost two-thirds think that way. For the first time, girls now think about this in much the same way as boys.
“A positive thing about this development is that boys and girls can feel freer to choose the type of relationship that suits them,” the researchers write. But they point out that sex with a steady partner is more often experienced as pleasant.
Other conclusions from the report:
- Young people are starting to have sex later and later. By the age of 18.7, half of young people have had vaginal sex. In 2012 that was 17 years old.
- Boys come more often than girls. With their last sex partner, 85 percent of boys usually or always had an orgasm, compared to 49 percent of girls. One in ten boys never or never comes, compared to almost one in three girls.
- Young people experience sexual boundaries being crossed more often. For example, one in five girls say that they have sometimes been forced to do sexual things that they did not want. In 2017 this percentage was 12 percent. This increase may be explained by the increased attention for the subject, the researchers write.
- Ten percent of young people indicate that they do not always check whether the other person wants sex. Yet it is important to ask permission, the researchers write. Because more than half of young people who have experienced sexual violence indicate that they did not show that they did not want this.
2024-01-22 02:33:43
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