There are many benefits to having safe sex.
For starters, condoms play a pivotal role in maintaining good sexual health. Second, if you’re using protection then you are far less likely to end up changing nappies nine months later.
But according to researchers from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, people who use contraception also have more sex.
Their study surveyed over 200,000 women since 2005 and found that 90% of women who reported using contraception had had sex in the previous month, compared to 72% of women who reported not using contraception, according to EurekAlert.
Other factors that influences sexual behaviour appeared to be age, education and family planning. Women who were in their twenties, well-educated and looking to have a baby in the next two years were all more likely to have had sex in the previous month.
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