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Jan. 21st, 2004 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebelraisingI thought I should really just post to note that just as I sat down to plan our consultation on the Sexual Health Strategy, look what came on my random playlist!
Hmm. So I'm trying to devise a questionnaire about where queer women get their information and advice from. And it occurs to me that there are several such women on my friends list. So: tell me.
Where did you get your sex education about sex between women?
What do you think "safer sex" means, between women?
Where do/ would you go for help with a sexual health problem?
Where do/ would you go for relationship advice?
Who do you talk to about sex and sexual health?
And, in an ideal world, how would you have answered those questions?
And, just as an injoke for those of us who've spent days reading this document: would you use a dental dam if you were in prison, but not otherwise?
I do actually want to know, by the way - both because I'm interested generally in other people's experiences, and because I need to put some shape to this consultation I'm planning. So: talk about sex! Now!
Hmm. So I'm trying to devise a questionnaire about where queer women get their information and advice from. And it occurs to me that there are several such women on my friends list. So: tell me.
Where did you get your sex education about sex between women?
What do you think "safer sex" means, between women?
Where do/ would you go for help with a sexual health problem?
Where do/ would you go for relationship advice?
Who do you talk to about sex and sexual health?
And, in an ideal world, how would you have answered those questions?
And, just as an injoke for those of us who've spent days reading this document: would you use a dental dam if you were in prison, but not otherwise?
I do actually want to know, by the way - both because I'm interested generally in other people's experiences, and because I need to put some shape to this consultation I'm planning. So: talk about sex! Now!
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Date: 2004-01-21 11:39 am (UTC)My sex education mostly talked about particular acts, not orientations. So more "if you do this, it's safe, if you do that, it's not" than "if you're straight, do this, if you're gay, do this." That said, it was definitely implicitly heterocentric, and I had to do some extrapolation.
What do you think "safer sex" means, between women?
I always think of safer sex as a continuum -- the only completely safe sex is no sex -- but certainly acts involving bare genitalia are less safe than acts not involving them. Covering them with some sort of latex increases the safety. I think every relationship needs to make those decisions for themselves, though.
Where do/ would you go for help with a sexual health problem?
My doctor.
Where do/ would you go for relationship advice?
I don't generally ask for relationship advice. Probably my closest friends, in a pinch.
Who do you talk to about sex and sexual health?
My partners.
And, in an ideal world, how would you have answered those questions?
Pretty much the same, though the sex education would have been less heterocentric.
-J