South Africans courting death with unprotected sex

Dispatch:

SIXTY-FOUR percent of South Africans have had unprotected sex without knowing their partner's sexual history, according to the Durex global sex survey.

The survey, conducted online, found that 10 percent of South Africans have had unprotected sex even when they thought they may have had a sexually transmitted infection of HIV/Aids.

Nineteen percent of South Africans are too scared to test for HIV/Aids, even though they suspect they have the disease.

The survey also found that 59 percent of South Africans have had sex with a stranger and 30 percent of men admit to having had an affair, compared with 20 percent of women.

South Africans have sex about 109 times a year - above the global average of 103. Greece, tops the list at 138 and Japan is the lowest at 45 times a year.

Favourite places for sex outside the bedroom are: the car, (74 percent), toilets (47 percent), garden (46 percent) parties (44 percent), nightclubs (37 percent) and aeroplanes (four percent).

Nearly a third (30 percent) of the South African respondents also admitted to having had sex at their work place.

The top three sexual enhancers in South Africa are pornography, lubricants and massage oils.

Asians still have the least sex, with Thais making love 97 times a year, China 96, Taiwan 88, Vietnam 87, Malaysia 83, Hong Kong 78, Indonesia 77, India 75, Singapore 73.

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