Profiles

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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 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
  • 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 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 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 06

    Treated for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Chlamydia.

  • Background

    Full-time mother lives on her own with her ten-month-old daughter. She would like to continue studying and to work with children.

  • Age at interview 18
  • 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 08

    She describes her first sexual experience as a bit traumatic.

  • Background

    Full-time university student who lives at home with her father. She prefers to use her GP for family planning.

  • Age at interview 19
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 43

    Says that she had her first sexual experience much too young and that she was not emotionally prepared to cope with the experience. (Played by an actor)

  • Background

    Lives in a rural community with her parents and siblings. She is in full-time education. (Played by an actor)

  • Age at interview 18
  • Sex/Gender Female
  • Interview 24

    She has had first hand experience of overcrowded family planning services in an inner city area.

  • Background

    She is having a gap year before going to University and was living in a shared house and working full time.

  • Age at interview 19
  • Sex/Gender Female