Profiles

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Interview 15

She had Chlamydia for which it was given a course of antibiotics that cleared the infection completely. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Currently she works in a bar and plans to go to University next year. She thinks herself ‘lucky’ to have been diagnosed with Chlamydia early on and avoiding the risk...

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 46

    At the age of 16 caught genital herpes, and was given a numbing gel and Zovirax. Now uses alternative treatments. At the same time caught gonorrhea, and chlamydia, which were treated with antibiotics. Has also experienced thrush and bacterial vaginitis.

  • Background

    Is a sales assistant who is single with no children. Played by and actor.

  • Age at interview 20
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 26

    Every month she experienced painful periods.

  • Background

    Lives in shared accommodation with two other friends and works part-time as a barmaid and studies at University.

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 12

    Says that although attitudes are changing men are still seen as 'studs and women as 'sluts for very similar behaviours.

  • Background

    She was brought up in a rural area. Currently at University she has worked for several years as a peer educator for the sex education programme’ A Pause.

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 09

    She had Chlamydia. She took a course of antibiotics that cleared the infection completely. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    She is a full-time mum, has two children’ one daughter of five and a half and a six-month-old baby. She became pregnant with her first child at the age of...

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 07

    For her, the best contraceptive method was the coil.

  • Background

    Single professional woman who works full time in the managerial sector. Brought up in a rural community where women had no access to family planning services.

  • Age at interview 25
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 05

    She when to a family planning clinic for the first time at the age of fourteen to get contraception. Her mum thought it was a brilliant idea.

  • Background

    Works full time as an account manager lives with her fianc’e and they are getting married next year. She wants to have children soon after that.

  • Age at interview 25
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 04

    Thinks that there is a lot of pressure on girls to be like 'sex porn actresses in bed. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Student, living away from home for the first time. Wants to work, travel and would like to have children in the context of a relationship in her thirties. (Played by...

  • Age at interview 20
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 03

    She had irregular bleeding and decided to go to a GUM clinic and be tested for STI's. Results of tests negative. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Graduate student who lives in shared house and has a steady boyfriend. She says that as a teenager, her mother told her about family planning and sexual health. (Played by...

  • Age at interview 25
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 02

    Thinks that in Britain sex is still associated with sin and that people do not talk about it. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Holds a science degree and works full time. At time of interview she has been in a long-standing relationship for the past five years. (Played by an actor)

  • Age at interview 23
  • Sex/Gender Female