Overseas students need sex education

[MontysDouble]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...05/2734350.htm

Overseas students need sex education

By Richard Ewart for Radio Australia

Updated Thu Nov 5, 2009 6:37pm AEDT

University staff have called for a national sex education strategy to help international students in Australia, after a study revealed they had an alarming lack of sexual knowledge.

The study follows statistics indicating one in three abortions at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide is performed on students from abroad.

The research found the students had little idea about where to go for help and advice.

Researchers at Adelaide University questioned four groups of female students from China and Malaysia about their knowledge and attitudes on sex.

They found the students were more likely to become sexually active in Australia, even though they lacked the knowledge to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy.

Co-investigator Professor Nigel Stocks told Radio Australia's Connect Asia the idea of going to a doctor for help and advice had never occurred to them.

"They didn't quite understand the role of general practitioners in Australia, for instance, and that this help was available to them," he said, adding that all the students had to take out private health insurance to cover doctors' visits.

Professor Stocks says it is clear there is a lack of sexual education in students' home countries.

He said by accepting the students, Australia had a responsibility to look after them.

"They're quite young and this may be the first time that they've lived away from home and they need more guidance," he said.

"I think there is a duty of care on the universities, the education system and also government, to provide some additional services ... so that they don't run into problems.

"Australia benefits greatly from having all these international students here, and ... there should be some sort of national program to provide appropriate information."

Freedom and uncertainty

Jill Michelson, an adviser at Marie Stopes International, which offers family planning and reproductive health care advice, says it is vital schools and universities step in and help vulnerable foreign students.

"They're away from their families, they're mixing with other students for the first time. They've got a degree of freedom I suppose, as well as a degree of uncertainty in that that they're not knowing what they're doing," she said.

The president of the Chinese Students' Association at the University of New South Wales, Chester Tan, says sex education in China is very basic and information in Australia in a formal setting is also hard to come by.

"There's nobody in charge for the overseas [students]," he said.

"The best way is on the internet, a lot of students use [sites] like Facebook to provide some of the information."

Professor Stocks says past research indicates the more knowledgeable young people are, the less likely they are to get pregnant and to get sexually transmitted infections.

[JooX]

I gotta stop going bare-back on the invaders.

[DC Thug]

so what i learned is chinese and malaysian girls are sluts

interesting...

[silenthill22]

I need to move.

[Josh85]

target aquired

[MontysDouble]

^^^ Guys, you'd be better off getting your casual sex from a young woman who is more likely on the pill.

The article mentions nothing on rates of promiscuity or premarital sex... I suspect both are lower in more prudish societies so you might be out of luck going for Asian women there too.

[hoschiadedodi]

ass is safe.

[JooX]

Originally Posted by hoschiadedodi

ass is safe.

Troof


But still very very yucky stinky poo's!

[MontysDouble]

Originally Posted by hoschiadedodi

ass is safe.

Suuuure it is.










Just ask Mr Hands.

[hoschiadedodi]

all I meant to say was, it's only three words women need to know about contraception.