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Cell Phone Soap Operas Promote Safe Sex

by Terrence O'Brien on January 6, 2009 at 01:05 PM

Cell Phone Soap Operas Promote Safe SexLet's be frank. No one gets all that excited at the idea of safe sex and the mention of condoms. But if you're out there having unprotected sex you're a moron.

Sorry to be blunt, dear readers, but it's true, and everyone has been trying to tell you this for years and you're still not listening. But while we're resorting to name calling and verbal abuse, others like Rachel Jones, a professor of Nursing at Rutgers University, are creating more innovative campaigns to encourage people to practice safe sex.

Jones, using a grant from Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey and the National Institutes of Health, filmed a series of twelve twenty minute soap operas to be distributed online and via cell phone. The episodes tell tales of infidelity and risky behavior amongst urban women. Jones is conducting a study in which women will watch the stories over a period of time that deliver a message encouraging safe sex in order to find out if the rate of risky behavior, such as having unprotected sex, decreases in the subjects.

You can check out the double length pilot episode here. The rest be released over the coming weeks and months. [From: Fox News]

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