They mapped one couple to a series of previous partners, implying that the couple are also sleeping with their partner’s past. Sloppy seconds, some might call it.

There is a similar campaign going at the moment, you might have seen it on TV or in magazines.

Apparently in the south western Sydney region, sexually transmitted infections other than HIV have more than doubled in the past several years, particularly in the under 30s, and Chlamydia ranks right up there as a common infection.

This is either because people are more aware of being tested, and so there are more cases being recorded, or it means gen Y are a very randy bunch, picking up more than a meaningful one-night relationship when they head out on a Friday night.

An older colleague of mine thinks the latter applies.

I think it might be a combination of both – perhaps gen Y are having more sex than their predecessors, but I bet they know a lot more about what they might catch.

Which is why they have all the more reason to be aware of what they are doing, to avoid catching STIs and STDs.

I refer back to my time at uni, again. A girl I was at college with went to the doctor for all the usual check ups, and came out with the knowledge she had picked up Chlamydia. The poor thing knew exactly who she got it from because her sexual past was pretty easy to track.

She confronted the guy, who was then put in the pickle of having to confront the several other girls he had also been sexually active with around the same time as my friend. This then had a domino effect of shock (also, because we found out how friendly he had been), and so on, and so on.

So half the uni had to go to the doctor and swallow the two little tablets that would make them all OK down there again.

This incident sparked a lot of gossip around the uni, and I think this gossip was fantastic. Yes, because I’m a girl and love a bit of gossip, but really it was because it had guys talking about sexual health. A lot of blokes had never been for a check up ‘down there’, because they said they didn’t want a rod shoved down their… um… thingy. When it was explained to them that they simply had to pee in a cup (to test for Chlamydia anyway), I think quite a few of them trotted off for the test.