LIRNEasia » North Carolina http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:15 +0000 en hourly 1 Ideas for maturing mobile markets: Sex info for teens http://lirneasia.net/2009/05/ideas-for-maturing-mobile-markets-sex-info-for-teens/ http://lirneasia.net/2009/05/ideas-for-maturing-mobile-markets-sex-info-for-teens/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 08:38:08 +0000 Rohan Samarajiva http://lirneasia.net/?p=4172 Voice is becoming a commodity. Mobile operators have to think of new services that people will pay for. Here is one. It’s not porn. It’s intervention from a government agency to prevent teen pregnancies.

THE special cellphone, set on vibrate, begins to whir. Throughout North Carolina, anonymous teenagers are texting questions to it about sex.

“If you take a shower before you have sex, are you less likely to get pregnant?” asks one.

Another: “Does a normal penis have wrinkles?”

A young girl types: “If my BF doesn’t like me to be loud during sex but I can’t help it, what am I supposed to do?”

Within 24 hours, each will receive a cautious, nonjudgmental reply, texted directly to their cellphones, from a nameless, faceless adult at the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, based in Durham.

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