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There’s something wrong with sex education in this country. There must be. The results speak for themselves. The highest number of teenage pregnancies in the whole of Western Europe
(45, 873 in 2008). 20,000 girls under 18 undergoing an abortion last year. And high numbers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs); recent figures show 15- to 24-year-olds are still the group most affected by STIs in the UK. Dr Gwenda Hughes, head of the Health Protection Agency’s STI section, says: ‘The impac...
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