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Jay Cartwright said:Kids today eh...
When I was at school we might have sneeked off behind the bike shed for a quick kiss and grope but we never came close to organized orgies.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1588791,00.html
Teenagers are indulging in hedonistic lifestyles involving unprecedented levels of group and under-age sex that risk an epidemic of health problems.
School nurses treating sexual infections and offering alcohol and drug addiction services said yesterday that many children have dangerously amoral attitudes to relationships and high-risk habits such as drug taking and alcohol abuse.
Health professionals addressing the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress reported dramatic rises in sex among the young, including alarming new trends such as "daisy chaining" - where groups of teenagers indulge in a variety of sexual activities.
Frontline nurses said that it was hard to believe some of the problems they encountered almost daily, from playground sexual crazes to the repercussions of sexual abuse, prostitution, drug use and self-harm.
Judy McRae, a sexual health nurse and London regional officer for the RCN, said that a new phenomenon has been identified among the capital's teenagers - involving groups going to one another's homes to have sex with a series of partners.
"Colleagues are coming across reports of groups of young people having sex in large groups," she said. "It is known as daisy chaining and is obviously very worrying as far as sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy is concerned.
"As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging. It is very new and is only just starting to be talked about."
The group called for more school nurses and said that the days when the job involved being a source of sympathy and sticking-plasters were long gone.
Liz Allan, chair of the School Nurses' Forum, said that it was difficult to grasp the extremes of cruelty experienced by some children.
Few nurses, when they qualified, had any idea of what they would be doing. "Glory be that the majority of the population doesn't know what is going on," she said.
Very early sexual activity and child prostitution were common problems, she said.
"Most school nurses at some time in their career will deal with young people who are subjected to sexual exploitation ó boys and girls who prostitute themselves, children exploited sexually as a result of coercion, violence, trafficking, or who are on the fringes of the law and seeking affection outside their families."
The trend spells even more trouble for Britain's epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Among teenagers, such infections have doubled in ten years, with new cases among those under 20 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland up from 669,291 in 1991 to 1,332,910 in 2001.
Among the wider population, cases of chlamydia, Britain's most common sexually transmitted infection, have risen threefold since 1995. In 2003 there were 89,818 cases diagnosed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, up 9 per cent in a year. More than 1,000 girls aged 14 and under had abortions last year, according to government statistics - up 8 per cent on the previous year.
Ministers have pledged to halve pregnancies among under-18s by 2010, and £138 million has been allocated since 1998 to fund the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, which involves making the morning-after pill, condoms and sex education more easily available.
Count me in.
Thanks for giving it some time in C&C anyway.
