Concern as women abandon condoms

Worrying figures in a sex survey of UK women reveal that a quarter stop using condoms a month after they start sleeping with a new partner, and four per cent abandon protection after just a fortnight.

The figures, in Company magazine, show 13 per cent of women never ask about their new partner's sexual history.

The statistics follow last week's warning from doctors of the huge increase in sexually transmitted diseases.

They pointed to a big increase in the number of people having casual sex, especially young adults under the age of 30.