Sexwise Audio

Changes during puberty

How do you feel about changes to your body? Do you feel embarrassed or worried? Listen to young people talking about their experiences

• "I wasn’t the only one"

• "I was embarrassed"

• ". . .there are responsibilities that come with turning from a child to an adult"

• "I started to change . . ."

• "When I had my period for the first time, I didn’t know what was going on . "

Virginity

Listen to sexwise producers talking about experiences from Turkey, Uzbekistan and Africa

• Sexwise: the True Story - hear differing attitudes towards virginity around the world
  
  

Relationships and Travelling Companions

How do you feel about sexual relationships outside of marriage?
Listen to 2 contrasting attitudes

• "My boyfriend does not believe in pre-marital sex"
  
  
• "I don’t think it’s healthy to wait until marriage to have sexual relations"

• Listen to young people in West Africa talking about love, intimacy and relationships

• Are sex and love the same thing?
• Hear differing attitudes to sexuality in South Asia, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania

Talking to each other

• "We don’t tend to look at it from women’s point of view, but we look at it from men’s point of view"

• "Even when a girls means a ‘no’, a man takes it for ‘yes’"

• What are the risks and responsibilities that come with sex?

Contraception

• Hear people's experiences in using contraception

HIV/AIDS

• Four people share their stories about living with HIV/AIDS

• Young people talk about HIV/AIDS prevention and counselling