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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 07:06 pm (UTC)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.
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* 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.