Backpackers snub casual sex warning By Damien Murphy December 6, 2004 A survey of overseas backpackers in Sydney and Cairns has revealed Australia as the get lucky country, with more than half having sex with a new partner in the previous three days. It found 39 per cent had casual sex with someone they had first met that day or night. On a more sombre note, 1 per cent of the backpackers surveyed admitted to be HIV positive and half to having sexual intercourse in Australia without a condom. Academic Cari Egan told a national sex conference at Sydney University yesterday that her survey underscored the need for public health campaigns to target backpackers and prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. She said the disturbingly high consumption of alcohol among backpackers lowered inhibitions and caused them to jettison many of the safeguards they automatically adopted when contemplating sex with new partners back home. Ms Egan, who is completing her doctorate at the University of NSW, said she had interviewed 559 backpackers aged 15-39 and there were indications that few understood the risks associated with casual sex. "Half of the sample inconsistently used a condom during sex with someone new. Twenty-five per cent of backpackers never used a condom," she said. Ms Egan said more than 500,000 international and domestic backpackers visited Sydney each year and there was little appreciation of their effect on public health, either among themselves or the general population. "The global health implications of unprotected sex within the context of travel have been of great concern to many researchers and sexual health clinical staff," she said. "The results of the survey show the anonymity, need to make friends and companions, and the lowering of inhibitions that go with backpacking makes people indulge more in casual sex without condoms." SOURCE
Interesting. Casual Sex is great. And yes, Aussies rock in general. I am a big fan of the Giants of Science. Sorry, but I simply could not resist bringing this non-sequitur bit of information in.
yeah, one of them stayed at my place last year. And this year I hosted her "sista" (as she pronounces it) didnt have sex though.
Geez, too bad...I guess she just treated you like a brotha... It's funny seeing our accents written down. Made me laugh.
Aussie's just love foreigners in general. We take it as our duty to introduce them all to Australian beer and genitalia. In fact, I know girls who go out on the town with the specific purpose of searching out backpackers. Some girls won't do a guy at all if he can speak more than two words of English!
Well it's both ways, a host shouldnt try to sleep with his guests where they sort of have a psychological disadvantage. I consider it abusive. Actually at first it was "masista said this, masista said that, masista called back". And I was like "who da hell is masista?" Then I figured that it is "my sister"
