The subtext to this is the entrenched view on the political right in the US that the jab encourages promiscuity.

Over the years Japanese officials have contended that the pills are unsafe for women and would encourage promiscuity.

Giving teen-agers contraceptives encourages promiscuity, and bribing them to use Norplant will encourage it even more.

Evidence shows that rates of infection have risen most sharply in those countries which have been flooded with condoms, says the report, because they encourage promiscuity.

Protestors who have picketed outside the centre, claim the advice on offer encourages promiscuity.

Opponents of the pill, including religious conservatives, have said it will encourage sexual promiscuity.

The controversy Perhaps the main fear of the vaccine's opponents is that it might encourage adolescent promiscuity.

It said birth control encouraged promiscuity, tore families apart and enabled men to take advantage of women.

All he wants, he insists, is to give his blessing to a relationship that he believes will "reduce rather than encourage promiscuity."

Possible protests by Roman Catholic and other demonstrators, who argue that the plan will encourage sexual promiscuity, are a particular worry.