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Interview 19

He and his girlfriend are both students and want to travel and developed their careers. He does not want children until he is in his thirties. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    He is an undergraduate who lives in shared accommodation. He appreciates to have grown up in a stable family home. (Played by an actor)

  • Age at interview 19
  • Sex/Gender Male
  • Interview 18

    In her culture the coming of age of a girl is at the time of the first menstruation and it is an occasion that it is celebrated by the whole family. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Defines herself as a Black African woman and a full-time mother. She lives with her partner and her fifteen-month-old daughter and says she enjoys the support of parents and in-laws....

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 17

    Says that both young men and young women are experiencing pressures when it comes to sexual performance.

  • Background

    She works full time in the education sector and is involved in the A Pause sexual education programme in an inner city area. Lives with her mother and says that...

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • 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 14

    In terms of contraception she has used the contraceptive pill and condoms. On one occasion she had to take the morning after pill after a condom split. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    She is a university student who lives away from home during term time. She and her boyfriend went travelling around the world recently. (Played by an actor)

  • Age at interview 19
  • 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 11

    He participates in a gay support group run by the Terrence Higgins Trust.

  • Background

    Recently graduated, works as a manual worker in a supermarket. As a gay man thinks that it is important to provide young people with a safe environment to learn about...

  • Age at interview 21
  • Sex/Gender Male