SHARE
COPY LINK

SEX

Female students have more sex partners: study

Female university students in Sweden have twice as many sex partners than they did ten years ago, according to a new survey by the student health service at Uppsala University, while condom use is on the decline.

The number of female students who have had a sexually transmitted disease has also doubled, the survey shows. Condoms are furthermore not as commonly used today with a new partner as they were a decade ago, according to a report in the local Upsala Nya Tidning daily.

“The development is worrying. To be able to break the trend of an increasing number of young women being infected by some sexually transmitted disease, more must demand that their partners use a condom,” said Tanja Tydén, a professor in health sciences at Uppsala University, to the newspaper.

The survey is carried out at five year intervals among female students who have visited Studenhälsan, the student health service at Uppsala University.

The survey shows that in 2009 female students had had an average of 11 sexual partners, more than double as many in comparison to those visiting the health clinic ten years before.

Over the same period the proportion who used a condom with a new sex partner had declined from 60 to 49 percent.

In 2009 almost a third of students had had chlamydia, genital warts or some other sexually transmitted disease, double the number of a decade ago.

The study has been published in the Acta Obsetrica et Gynecologica Scandinavica journal.

Member comments

Log in here to leave a comment.
Become a Member to leave a comment.

SEX

France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had ‘marital duty’ to have sex with husband

A case has been brought against France at the European Court of Human Rights by a woman who lost a divorce case after judges ruled against her because she refused to have sex with her husband.

France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had 'marital duty' to have sex with husband
Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP

The woman, who has not been named, has brought the case with the backing of two French feminist groups, arguing that the French court ruling contravened human rights legislation by “interference in private life” and “violation of physical integrity”.

It comes after a ruling in the Appeals Court in Versailles which pronounced a fault divorce in 2019 because of her refusal to have sex with her husband.

READ ALSO The divorce laws in France that foreigners need to be aware of

The court ruled that the facts of the case “established by the admission of the wife, constitute a serious and renewed violation of the duties and obligations of marriage making intolerable the maintenance of a shared life”.

Feminist groups Fondation des femmes (Women’s Foundation) and Collectif féministe contre le viol (Feminist Collective against Rape) have backed her appeal, deploring the fact that French justice “continues to impose the marital duty” and “thus denying the right of women to consent or not to sexual relations”.

“Marriage is not and should not be a sexual servitude,” the joint statement says, pointing out that in 47 percent of the 94,000 recorded rapes and attempted rapes per year, the aggressor is the spouse or ex-spouse of the victim.

SHOW COMMENTS