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Can you design the perfect condom? Engaging young people to inform safe sexual health practice and innovation.
- Source :
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Sex Education . Jan 2022, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p110-122. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper describes the process of engaging young people in a user centred, co-design strategy to define their perfect condom. Our aims were 1) to find a way to destigmatise discussions about sexuality and contraception and 2) to provide information about what characteristics a perfect condom might embody for adolescents. We used arts-based methods to introduce creativity and enjoyment into discussing sensitive topics related to sexual and reproductive health, which is often avoided in relation to youth and usually nuanced by themes of risk and danger. Using theories of objects becoming things through their sociality, we explored what a condom could be to young people through our method of embedding the condom design process into narratives of young people's lives and integration of these ideas into the development of a next-generation condom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CONTRACEPTION
*ART
*PATIENT participation
*DISCUSSION
*MEDICINE information services
*HAPPINESS
*HUMAN sexuality
*SOCIAL stigma
*CREATIVE ability
*PRODUCT design
*SAFE sex
*HEALTH information services
*ACTION research
*COMMUNICATION
*HEALTH attitudes
*CONDOMS
*THEMATIC analysis
*SEXUAL health
*DIFFUSION of innovations
*REPRODUCTIVE health
*ADULT education workshops
*ADOLESCENCE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14681811
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sex Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154439287
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2021.1891040