Why Are Gen Z Teens Having Less Sex, and Using Less Protection?
Sunday’s Sexual Health Wealth article provided a deep dive into the latest report from The World Health Organization about declining condom use among Gen Z.
This wasn’t just an essay going over the study, it was analyzing the impact of communication and the language we use.
Public health and sexuality professionals do overlapping work, but have very different fields and approaches. This often trickles down to language, too.
While WHO’s press release calls for more comprehensive sex ed, describing STIs as “consequences” of s-x isn’t the move. Especially when we know that the media just runs with these statements to create more clickbait headlines.
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