A recent study carried out by Bayer Healthcare has highlighted the growing number of women who take risks when having sexual intercourse by not thinking about contraception. In fact, over half of sexually active women are throwing caution to the wind in this way. 58% of women are putting themselves at risk including one third who have had unprotected sex on at least five occasions and with almost 50% of women forgetting to take their birth control pills.
Of the 3,000 women surveyed, one in ten of them said that on occasion they did not use contraception so as not to kill the passion but only 16% of these women are using longer lasting contraceptives such as the coil in order to protect them from pregnancy. These forms of contraception do not need to be ‘remembered’ each time.
Despite the fact that these women could be protecting themselves from pregnancy with longer lasting forms of contraception, they should also be protecting themselves against sexually transmitted infections. This is the more worrying observation of the study.