Editorial
Sexual spin
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"`Scuse me", said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?"
Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories
The sexual health of adolescents in the Western world is generally declining. In the UK, which has the highest teenage conception rate in Western Europe, over 8000 girls under 16 years of age have unplanned pregnancies of which more than half end in abortions.1 The conception rate for 1996 was 9.4 conceptions per 1000 girls aged 13 to 15, a rise of 11% on the previous year.1
The USA had 15.3 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections
(STIs) in 1996 with teenagers and young adults being the most affected
groups. By the age of 24, one in three sexually active people in
America has had an STI.2 UK doctors treat about 740 000 new cases of STI every year,3 of which teenagers comprise
the most at-risk age group. The number of chlamydia infections in
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