Holiday sex fears for young women

Updated 09.58 Tue Jul 08 2008

Young women are running the risk of catching sexually-transmitted infections by having unprotected sex on holiday.

More than half of the women surveyed by More magazine said they were worried about picking up an STI as they did not always use condoms.

The average British woman has three holidays a year, in which she will have sex at least three times a day

Some 60 per cent said they always carried condoms on holiday but the remaining 40 per cent said that they only occasionally carried them or did not carry them at all.

The magazine surveyed 2,000 women with an average age of 25.

The women said they were more sexually active while holidaying. The average British woman has three holidays a year, in which she will have sex at least three times a day.

The research also showed over 80 per cent of women have sex with a "fellow holidaymaker", 35 per cent with a "local", 21 per cent with a member of hotel staff, 18 per cent with a tour rep and 2 per cent with member of the airline crew.

The survey found that a quarter of the women had been unfaithful to their partner, but only a minority had been found out once they returned home.