November 17, 2011
Gearing Up for Dating Confidential Push!
By
Katherine Dodds
Calling on Sexual Health Promoters to support Important Survey! Help us get our quota by December 15!
DatingConfidential.ca is a website with a survey that could provide very interesting information on how to reach women over 25 with sexual health information. A project of Univerity of British Columbia PhD candidate Cindy Masaro, Hello Cool World is helping to promote the survey.
Women over 25 are a population that is under-surveyed, and since many women who have been previously relatively monogamous, are finding themselves entering a dating world that is different than what they were used to the first time around. Particularly with online dating sites, and all the electronic communication modes that are part of everyone's life these days, there are new factors that are driving new narratives about sex, romance, and all the lovely logistics of 'hooking up."
Does this new world mean women will be more at risk for STIs? This is question Cindy is exploring, and as she points out, much of the existing research is on gay men, younger people in general, or those pervieved as the traditionally more at-risk communities. But are the newly divorced the new "at risk" group? It's a question worth asking.
And Cindy, as a 11-year veteran nurse at the BC Centre For Disease Control's STI clinic, knows first hand all kinds of people are having all kinds of unprotected sex, and many do not have an accurate idea of what constitutes risk in this day and age.
If you can help us promote this survey please Join us and we'll be in touch!
We have also created two e-flyers that can be forwarded as emails, or linked to as webpages -- one to encourage health promotors to help us promote the survey, and one that can be used BY health care promoters for general sharing and to send to their networks. Check them out!
Tag(s):
Dating Confidential,
Sexual Health
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On November 28, 2012 at 01:11 AM Omarsito wrote:
I dont' know that anyone can relaly find you on a dating site or hold it against you that you're doing onlilne dating. Millions of people do that, and it's totally acceptable in today's world. However, if you are posting crazy things on myspace or facebook, where people can openly search, that can possibly get you into trouble. My aunt had to fire someone because they kept calling out of work for migraines, but were posting updates online about how great it was to be in bed all day with her bf. So, I'd say don't worry about dating sites, but be careful with myspace/facebook type sites. If it worries you, google your name and see what pops up. I found myself under lesbian match once. I've never done that! But it was funny to find. If an employer found that, they can't discriminate against me, even if i was lesbian. Good luck and no worries )
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