Schoolies: 38 percent of girls will have ‘unexpected sex’

Watching the news (here in Australia) over the last week there has been a lot of bad press about the end-of-year schoolies parties all around the country, and especially in Queensland and New South Wales. In a report last night they told us that 38 percent of girls at these schoolies gatherings will have ‘unexpected sex’.

Firstly, as with all such statistics, I always wonder how they worked this out. I am not disputing it, but really, how would they arrive at this? Do they do some kind of schoolies break exit poll? Does someone ring up a sample set of a thousand or so of girls they know went on a schoolies get-away and ask them if they had sex?

Anyway, what I really want to know is what is ‘unexpected sex’?

And if 38 percent of girls will be engaging in unexpected sex then what percentage of them plan to have sex?

Oh well. Back when I was at school we had no such worries. There was no such thing as these end-of-year ‘schoolies’ parties. Things were much simpler and safer.