A rise in the levels of alcohol and drug consumption has fuelled a 'sexual health crisis' a report reveals today.
The levels of alcohol being consumed for encouraging high risk sexual behaviour which has led to a rise in teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
The report discovered that STI rates have risen dramatically in the last decade with chlamydia and HIV both incresing 300%, gonorrhoea by 200 % and syphilis by a staggering 2000%.
The report states: 'In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, adolescent girls have a 1 per cent chance of acquiring HIV, a 30 per cent chance of getting genital herpes, and a 50 per cent chance of contracting gonorrhoea.'
The shocking findings has led the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV, who compiled the report to call for clearer sex education lessons in schools.
The report also went on to condem the 'explicit or subliminal' sexual messages that currently exist in advertising as well as slamming the 'disastrous' celebrity role models that promote heavy drink and drug use and convey a 'distorted' message about sexual health.
These findings support a recent report made buy Unicef which put theUK at the bottom of a 21 country table when rating children's well being.
Unicef found that more British children have sex before the age of 15 than any other country and more have been drunk twice or more by the ages of 11, 13 and 15 than any other country.