Teenage ‘daisy chain’ sex alert

Teenagers are indulging in hedonistic lifestyles involving unprecedented levels of group and under-age sex that risk an epidemic of health problems. School nurses treating sexual infections and offering alcohol and drug addiction services said yesterday that many children have dangerously amoral attitudes to relationships and high-risk habits such as drug taking and alcohol abuse. Health professionals addressing the Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress reported dramatic rises in sex among the young, including alarming new trends such as “daisy chaining” — where groups of teenagers indulge in a variety of sexual activities. Frontline nurses said that it was hard to believe some of the problems they encountered almost daily, from playground sexual crazes to the repercussions of sexual abuse, prostitution, drug use and self-harm.

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