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According to the 2004 study “Getting Hotter, Going
Wilder: Changes in Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior Among Filipino
Youth” conducted by the Demographic & Development Foundation,
Inc. and the UP Population Institute, sexual risk tasking among
Filipino youth is becoming pervasive. Using data from the Young
Adult Fertility and Sexuality Survey conducted in 2002, the study
reveals that more young people are engaging in pre-marital sex and
at a younger age. Specifics results of this study show the
following:
• 16.5 million of the
Philippine population are between the ages from 15 to 24 years old
• Of this group, 4.9 million
lost their virginity before marriage and 12 percent of them were
between the ages of 15 to 19 when they had their first sexual
encounter
• Of those who were sexually
active before marriage, 1.6 million had multiple sex partners and
400,000 had same sex partners
• To compare against previous
years, in 1994, 23 percent of the Filipino youth were reported to
have engaged in risky sex (unprotected sex with single and multiple
partners). This number went up to 27.1 percent in 2002.
• Safe sex was hardly practiced
during their first sexual encounter as this was an unplanned event 
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