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A study in Britain has revealed that an alrming 70% of women have unprotected sex with strange men raising concerns over spread of sexually tranmitted diseases.

According to the study, seven out of ten single women aged between 18 and 40 regularly practice unprotected sex. Reasons range from being too drunk to simply trusting their partners.

The study further revealed that an average single woman has unprotected sex 11 times with four different men without perhaps acknowledging the problems they were getting themselves into.

For the study, 2000 women were surveyed.

The figures revealed that one-third of women got "swept away in the moment" forgetting about condoms, one in five trusted their patners that they won't give them infections, 18% were too drunk to use condoms and 8% simply did not like using condoms.

"Unsafe sex on holiday is a major concern, particularly where women plan ahead to have sex with new partners without using condoms.Women meet men on holiday who are complete strangers. They may know almost nothing about the men they meet, and having sex without contraception is a sure-fire way to increase the chances of contracting a sexually transmitted infection," Dr Tony Steele, co-founder of online doctor and DrFox.co.uk said, according to Daily Mail.

According to the study, 12% women said that whenever they required it, contraception was always not readily available while surprisingly, one in ten women who were at least 30 years or older, were simply shy or embarrassed to bring up the topic of contraception with a new partner.

Also, unprotected sex was most likely to take place during a holiday and it was women between the age of 30 and 40 who had contracted a sexually transmitted infection followed by those in their twenties.

The consequences of not using contraception were evident in the figures obtained after the research.

Women in their forties were also twice as likely to have had an unwanted pregnancy as those in the 18 to 29 age group, the report said.

Although women are the ones who often end up facing the consequence of having unprotected sex like an unwanted pregnancy, all the women during the study agreed that contraception must be equally shared between both men and women.

"The issue of contraception should be dealt with by both parties, but women need to protect themselves, even when men are not playing their part," Steele added.