I'm not exactly sure if my answering this will be useful (given that I'm Chilean and bisexual), but I hope it won't do any harm.
1- Where did you get your sex education about sex between women? Through an American friend on a mailing list. He's a sex counsellor at his university. Neither my family or my school thought I could use more specific information than "don't have sex, go on the pill, use condoms". My mother's idea (feminist that she is, oddly enough) of sex ed was to give me a book on women's health and puberty when I was 10 or so. Other than that, she'd say "don't do anything stupid" every 17 months or so. She was far more worried about me doing drugs, but I was never interested.
2- What do you think "safer sex" means, between women? I've heard about dental dams, but I've never seen any. I don't even know how they're called in Spanish. Other than that, make sure that neither my partner or myself have any STDs and condoms on sex toys, and monogamy.
3- Where do/ would you go for help with a sexual health problem? My GP, and I'd ask her for a referral to a gynecologist.
4- Where do/ would you go for relationship advice? Nowhere. If it's too much, I'd have to go to my friends, but I'd avoid it as much as possible. LJ would be a better option.
5- Who do you talk to about sex and sexual health? No one. Most of my offline friends are either asexual or celibate, or are not telling. If I had to ask, I'd use LJ - certain people on my friends list-, and my GP.
As to how I would have answered this questions in an ideal world, I've no idea. My school would have had proper sex-ed counsellors, same at the uni, not so focused on heterosexuality. Good, anonymous* information, that would have done the trick.
_______________________ * meaning that the shy ones of the world - like yours truly - would feel comfortable asking. No one knows who I am, no one asks my name, just offers information and advice.
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1- Where did you get your sex education about sex between women?
Through an American friend on a mailing list. He's a sex counsellor at his university. Neither my family or my school thought I could use more specific information than "don't have sex, go on the pill, use condoms". My mother's idea (feminist that she is, oddly enough) of sex ed was to give me a book on women's health and puberty when I was 10 or so. Other than that, she'd say "don't do anything stupid" every 17 months or so. She was far more worried about me doing drugs, but I was never interested.
2- What do you think "safer sex" means, between women?
I've heard about dental dams, but I've never seen any. I don't even know how they're called in Spanish. Other than that, make sure that neither my partner or myself have any STDs and condoms on sex toys, and monogamy.
3- Where do/ would you go for help with a sexual health problem?
My GP, and I'd ask her for a referral to a gynecologist.
4- Where do/ would you go for relationship advice?
Nowhere. If it's too much, I'd have to go to my friends, but I'd avoid it as much as possible. LJ would be a better option.
5- Who do you talk to about sex and sexual health?
No one. Most of my offline friends are either asexual or celibate, or are not telling. If I had to ask, I'd use LJ - certain people on my friends list-, and my GP.
As to how I would have answered this questions in an ideal world, I've no idea. My school would have had proper sex-ed counsellors, same at the uni, not so focused on heterosexuality. Good, anonymous* information, that would have done the trick.
_______________________
* meaning that the shy ones of the world - like yours truly - would feel comfortable asking. No one knows who I am, no one asks my name, just offers information and advice.