The condom has now caught up with the pill as women's preferred method of contraception, latest figures suggest.
A quarter of the 1,093 women under 50 surveyed opted for condoms, which is identical to the proportion who plumped for the oral contraceptive pill.
Experts said the Office for National Statistics figures were good news since condoms prevent sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancy.
Almost half of the condom users cited STIs as their motive for using them.
And half of the 2,557 people surveyed in England, Scotland and Wales said TV programmes and adverts had been their main source of information about STIs.
Sexual behaviour
However, more than half the men interviewed who said they were not in a long-term exclusive relationship, but had had a sexual relationship in the last year, said information on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections had no effect on their behaviour. Read more...
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