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Despite major efforts to alert youths to the dangers of certain sexual practices, high-risk behavior remains common even among the well-educated. This anonymous survey of 5514 Canadian college students, performed in 1988, reveals serious knowledge gaps as well.
Thirteen percent of students, for example, thought that oral contraceptives protected women from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and 85 percent did not realize that the risks of serious consequences of STDs vary between men and women. About 70 percent of students had been sexually active, with 21 percent of the men and 9 percent of the women reporting at least 10 different partners. Fourteen percent of sexually active men and 19 percent of sexually active women had engaged in an…