The more things change, the more they stay the same……

Young people across the county are being encouraged to think more about their sexual health following research which has revealed the shocking finding that one in three young people in the county have had drunken sex.

It also found one in five (22 per cent) of young people have gone home with a stranger while 15 per cent have invited a stranger back to their home.

Almost all the 16 to 24-year-olds surveyed by YouthNet were sexually active (92 per cent) and more than a third (37 per cent) first had sex under the legal age of 16.

More than a third of girls (36.9 per cent) and just under one fifth of boys (19 per cent) said they thought they should have waited longer to have sex.

Almost one in three boys (29.9 per cent) and one in five girls (19.1 per cent) said they had been drinking when they first had sex.

One in five boys did not use contraception when they first had sex (21.5 per cent), compared with one in ten girls (11 per cent.)