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Reasearch Shows Widespread Ignorance About Safe Sex Yet among India's 300 million young people ages 10 to 24, recent studies show that premarital sex is increasingly common. A 2001 study conducted in Delhi and the Lucknow (capital of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh) by the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare shows that some 15 percent of young people engage in premarital sex, even though Indian society regards sex before marriage as deviant behavior. The study, which included grade school and college students, also revealed that despite a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic, many young people have unprotected sex. Two common reasons given by youth for not using condoms are that they are hesitant to obtain them (39.3 percent) and fear side effects (34.3 percent), according to the study "Premarital Sexuality and Unmet Need of Contraception." Ironically, even the veneer of modernity among the better-educated middle- and upper-class youth can be misleading....

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