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Interview 16

She says that she has always insisted on condoms and that as far as she is concern, 'If no condoms, no nookie'. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Black Caribbean young woman who works full time in the administrative sector. Since starting her sexual life she has used contraception. Her primary concern has always been to avoid unwanted...

  • Age at interview 24
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • 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