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A new smartphone mobile app allows
users to find sensitive health information on various topics, including
sexuality, body changes, sex and sexual activities, STDs, birth control, and
pregnancy. Fabrizio Dolfi, founder of MySexDoctor.org, created the app to
encourage young people to learn more about sexual health. “The point of this
app is to try to get teenagers and young people to want to learn about sex and
to point out things that they should know,” Dolfi said.
Dolfi wanted the app to be available
to people at all times so it does not require Internet access once downloaded.
The full, paid app is restricted to people older than 17, and a free “lite app”
is available to teens older than 12. “The majority of teenagers have a
smartphone and going forward, that number is just going up,” Dolfi said, noting
that he “chose an application because it fits in your pocket and is with you at
all times.”
It took more than two years for
Dolfi to create the comprehensive, user-friendly app. He wanted to “change the
way people access sex education.” The app provides information beginning at
puberty and goes into more detailed information on sexual activities in the
adult version. “The body starts changing, then one starts experiencing feelings
for other people, next he or she enters the flirting and dating arena and at
some point things become physical,” he said. “Once a person becomes sexually
active and starts discovering the beauties and challenges of lovemaking, he or
she also starts being exposed to various risks like STDs and unwanted
pregnancies.”
Dolfi wanted the emphasis to be on
sex education so he declined to make advertisers and investors part of the app
to avoid distractions. The app, launched in July, is based out of England but
Dolfi hopes to make it available soon in the Unites States and beyond. Dolfi
said the app would evolve and expand with time with content expansion, weekly
stories, meetings hosted by experts, and additional languages.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus.
To learn more about The Friends of
AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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