Some 58 percent of South Africans are having unprotected sex despite the risk of contracting HIV, condom manufacturer Durex revealed in its annual global sex survey.
According to the South African Press Association, the research also found that 21 percent of more than 3,000 South Africans had not received any formal sex education.
Sex therapist Dr Bernard Levinson said the country's people were still living under the delusion that "it's not going to be me".
He criticised the survey for having been internet-based, and thus confined to an "exclusive, yuppie group of young people".
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