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July 30, 2007

Sex Education Arrives in Second Life

The University of Plymouth, in Britain, has established a region in the virtual world Second Life to educate students about contraception and sexual health. The site’s digital characters, called avatars, can even grab free condoms from a dispensing machine. Susan Toth-Cohen, who helps direct an occupational-therapy program at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, was in on the site’s creation.

The region offers Web links—including a blog about the project—to other sex-education materials. An office in the sky allows for one-to-one sex counseling. —Andrea L. Foster

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1. Additional info: Staff from Plymouth University in Devon, UK, are Maged N. Kamel Boulos (Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics, and originally a medic/venereologist) and Steve Wheeler (Senior Lecturer in ICT in Education). The project is funded by SL Education UK: http://www.sleducationuk.net/?q=node/14
   The project proposal can be found at (zipped PDF): http://healthcybermap.org/MNKB-et-al_SexualHealthSIM.zip

   — Samantha Gordon    Jul 29, 06:20 AM    #

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