The number of sexually transmitted diseases is increasing among young people.

More than half of young people aged 15 to 29 say they engage in risky behavior during sexual relationships. In recent years illnesses from sexual transmission were shot. The Noticias Cuatro team visits a family planning center to find out more about this situation. Gender inequality and pornography are behind this problem.

Lucia fights to raise risk awareness among young people don’t use a condom in sexual relations from a family planning center. And cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia have reached their highest peak in 30 years.

Planned Parenthood says that it is very difficult for young people who do not have a regular partner to say “hey, no, without a condom.” And some believe that such a situation will not happen to them or that “love protects, and it’s enough not to take advantage of it.” This applies to men, since they predominate over women in the incidence of STIs, with the majority of cases occurring in young people.

The most popular excuses are: “it’s not necessary”, “that it bothers them” or “that they will solve everything by going to the clinic.” There are two factors behind this increase: for not And gender inequality. In pornography there is a male figure associated with power. In the feminine gender – submission.

The majority of sexual diseases occurred at the ages of 25-34 years (36.4%) and 20-24 years (26.4%), amounting to 315.68 and 203.85, respectively. The percentage of cases between the ages of 15 and 19 was 10.9%.

To prevent this type of disease it is necessary to offer sex education from a very early age. Thus, we must educate about prevention, condom use, and diseases that can be contracted if sexual relations are not restricted.