Love Me Sexy is designed to be a one-stop place for teens and young adults to access comprehensive sexual health and relationship information. Currently a teen would need to spend considerable time doing online searches to locate information related to sexual health and relationships. We want to create a place where youth can find listings of local health clinics, ratings of contraceptives, hotlines, and other sexual health & relationship resources. This mashup would be searchable by topic, location, and gender. In addition to factual information, users will be able to rate products and services providing the crucial peer-to-peer aspect that young people relate to. We envision a site where you can find information on the best health clinics, places providing AIDS/STD testing, product ratings (sexual toys, pregnancy kits, contraceptives, etc), hotlines & resources. Accessible via mobile technology, Love Me Sexy will make it simple to access all-inclusive information about sexual health and relationships. We envision this as the first phase in constructing an expansive “personal health” site for young people with future areas devoted to nutrition & exercise, mental health, and other relevant health topics for youth.

This project aims to decrease transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, among urban youth by using mobile technology to convey critical sexual health information.

The SexINFO text messaging service was originally launched in 2006 by ISIS, Inc and the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health to address rising rates of gonorrhea and clamydia among African-American youth. Youth interviewed agreed that mobile phones were an easy, affordable and private way to reach them with sensitive health information.

By providing basic facts about STDs and HIV, along with clinic resources and testing sites, hours, and phone contact information, the project aims to decrease rates of STD transmission among at-risk urban youth.