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Sex Education in the Digital Era SEX EDUCATION Sex Education in the Digital Era SEX EDUCATION Editors Pauline Oosterhoff, Catherine Müller and Kelly Shephard IN THE DIGITAL ERA Volume 48 | Number 1 | January 2017 Introduction: Sex Education in the Digital Era e Pauline Oosterhoff, Catherine Müller and Kelly Shephard Enabling Online Safe Spaces: A Case Study of Love Matters Kenya Maaike van Heijningen and Lindsay van Clief New Digital Ways of Delivering Sex Education: A Practice Perspective wledg Tr Linda Waldman and Isabelle Amazon-Brown ansforming o Dev #ByeTaboo: Expanding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and elopment Kn o Rights Education wledg Kn Natalia Herbst e Volume 48 Volume Digital Pathways to Sex Education Catherine Müller, Pauline Oosterhoff and Michelle Chakkalackal Feeling ‘Blue’: Pornography and Sex Education in Eastern Africa Kristen Cheney, Annah Kamusiime and Anteneh Mekonnen Yimer | Blurring the Boundaries of Public Health: It’s Time to Make Safer Sex Porn 1 Number and Erotic Sex Education elopment Anne Philpott, Arushi Singh and Jennie Gamlin | January 2017 Dev ansforming ansforming Tr ‘Young people need access to new types of digital sex education environments that are realistic, Transforming Development Knowledge emotionally attuned, non-judgemental and open to the messages they themselves create, and sex educators cannot help build such environments until they understand how they work.’ ISSN 0265-5012 (print), 1759-5436 (online) DOI: 10.19088/1968-2017.100 Volume 48 | Number 1 | January 2017 Volume 47 (2016) IDS Bulletin The IDS Bulletin is an open access, peer-review journal No. 1 Opening Governance exploring emerging international development challenges. 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Tr Transforming Development Knowledge Volume 48 | Number 1 | January 2017 Sex Education in the Digital Era Editors Pauline Oosterhoff, Catherine Müller and Kelly Shephard Introduction: Sex Education in the Digital Era Pauline Oosterhoff, Catherine Müller and Kelly Shephard 1 Enabling Online Safe Spaces: A Case Study of Love Matters Kenya Maaike van Heijningen and Lindsay van Clief 7 New Digital Ways of Delivering Sex Education: A Practice Perspective Linda Waldman and Isabelle Amazon-Brown 23 #ByeTaboo: Expanding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Education Natalia Herbst 43 Digital Pathways to Sex Education Catherine Müller, Pauline Oosterhoff and Michelle Chakkalackal 61 Feeling ‘Blue’: Pornography and Sex Education in Eastern Africa Kristen Cheney, Annah Kamusiime and Anteneh Mekonnen Yimer 81 Blurring the Boundaries of Public Health: It’s Time to Make Safer Sex Porn and Erotic Sex Education Anne Philpott, Arushi Singh and Jennie Gamlin 99 Glossary 117 Acknowledgements We would like to thank the reviewers of the articles for their extremely valuable comments and suggestions: Pam Baatsen, Evangelia Berdou, Michelle Chakkalackal, Natalia Herbst, Elizabeth Mills, Thea Shahrokh, Kelly Shephard, Patta Scott-Villiers, Erin Stern, Linda Waldman, Stephen Wood. Without their input this IDS Bulletin would not have been possible. The co-editors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Love Matters. As collaborators we gratefully acknowledge the financial support from RNW Media for the production of this issue of the IDS Bulletin, as well as contributing the Love Matters staff time of Katie Thompson, Mart Kok, Luke Gilder, Erik Hillen, Benjamin Dalmulder and Lindsay van Clief, and for the funding of research, which Müller et al. is based on. RNW Media is a media organisation for social change. In parts of the world, where change is hard to achieve because freedom of speech is restricted, we use media to make lives better. Love Matters is a sexual health reproductive and rights programme that uses web, mobile and social media platforms to offer young people information that can help them have a safe and healthy sex life. Disclaimer The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the official policies of RNW Media, Love Matters or our funders. Vol. 48 No. 1 January 2017: ‘Sex Education in the Digital Era’ DOI: 10.19088/1968-2017.100 Institute of Development Studies | bulletin.ids.ac.uk Notes on Contributors Isabelle Amazon-Brown is Head of Programme Design at Every1Mobile, a ‘mobiles4good’ organisation working with the charitable and development sectors to implement digital solutions across education, health and livelihoods in Africa. Isabelle has designed and managed online communities for clients including the Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender. Most recently, she led on the design of a gender empowerment mobile course for Nigerian youth, an online community for Kenyan shopkeepers and a digital literacy site for South African teenage girls. She is interested in taking participatory approaches to solution design,
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