1 in 17 Shibuya Teens Have Contracted STDs

Interesting results from a survey conducted on teens in Tokyo’s Shibuya area:

The survey was conducted on high school students and teenage high school graduates. Sixty-eight percent of the respondents had experienced sex before, and 5.8 percent had contracted a sexually transmitted disease in the past, the survey showed.

The average number of sex partners in total was 5.2, but restricted to those who had contracted a sexually transmitted disease in the past, the average was 37, more than seven times higher.

Over 80 percent of respondents said they could explain what a sexually transmitted disease was, but only about 20 percent had correct knowledge on STDs, such as the fact that it was 10 times easier to contract a sexually transmitted disease than to have an unwanted pregnancy, or that chlamydia, when left untreated, could result in women not being able to have children. More than half of the respondents did not know that AIDS was spreading among young people.