Almost one girl out of ten doesn’t experience her “first time” in the place she had dreamt of. One girl out of ten lives her first sexual experience at school, without having planned it and 40% in a “dangerous” place.

This is the alarming data launched by Alessandra Graziottin, director of the centre for Gynecology of the San Raffaele Resnati hospital of Milan. “57% experience their first time at home – said the expert, mentioning the results of a survey carried out on 600 girls under 26 – but the remaining 43% does it in “places at high risk”, where they can be discovered and abused”.

In particular these dangerous places are cars in 19% of cases, clubs in 11% and 10% schools. This data worries doctors, since “31% of women have no information concerning contraception during their first sexual experience and 37% does not use any protections”. These unplanned conditions together with the fact that one girl out of two has an older partner increase the risk of sexual diseases. “Girls suffer from genital condyloma caused by papilloma 2.5 times more than boys of the same age”.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute