Sydney, Oct 9 (ANI): The Police Commissioner of New South Wales has advised women to inform their friends if they plan to have sex on a night out and to "look out for your mates".
Andrew Scipione, NSW commissioner said that young women should avoid unwanted and potentially dangerous encounters that they may later regret.
The rise in unrestrained drinking among girls and young women in the state has made them vulnerable to sexual assault, liaisons they may regret, psychological trauma, sexually transmitted infections and even a threat to their fertility.
According to The Sun-Herald, the commissioner pointed out that in a soon-to-be-published University of Wollongong study of 235 female university students between the ages of 18 to 25, one-quarter drank twice a week and the same number drank heavily in a single session at least four times a month.
Those who drank heavily were more likely to find themselves in dangerous sexual situations and yet almost half said they never, rarely or only sometimes used a condom during sex.
"It sounds crude and at first you think: 'Too much detail'," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Scipione as saying.
"But in certain parts of the UK, I know police suggest to women that if you're going to go out and you're planning on having sex tonight, tell a girlfriend. If you're not, tell a girlfriend.
"If they see you wandering off with a male that they don't know and they see you in a state of intoxication - and it's not your intention to have sex tonight - then they stop the girl. They may be a victim of a crime; they may be the subject of a drink spiking," he stated.
Almost 3,000 people between the ages of 15 to 24 are admitted to Australian hospitals each year for acute intoxication, and between the late 1990s and 2005-06, the rate of young women being admitted to hospitals has doubled. (ANI)
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