Educating about safe sex practices


  • Establishing use of safer sex practices
  • Encouraging protected sex
  • Informing about unsafe sex
  • Protecting sexual intercourse
  • Practicing safe sex
  • Avoiding disease transmission from sexual partner

Description

Safe sex means the use of condoms, or non-penetrative sex, to avoid infection and pregnancy.

Context

There is a gap between knowledge and practice among sexually active young people. A study in rural Uganda found that the mean age for first sex was 15 years for both girls and boys. Contraceptive awareness was over 80%, but only 24% of couples were using any method.

Implementation

Enormous progress has been made in the last few years with the acceptability of condoms. In Vanuatu, South Pacific, the Family Health Unit produced a radio programme to encourage young people to use condoms. They wrote and performed three short plays in Bislama about worried parents, two young men and two young women. The refrain throughout the programme was 'No condom, no sex', sung to the tune of Bob Marley's 'No Woman, No Cry'.

Claim

  1. Unfortunately discussing safe sex is embarrassing; anatomy is easier to talk about than sexual practices. Only when adults can admit that virtually everyone masturbates, will the topic become easier to address.


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