Promoting Hook-Ups or Filling Sexual Health Information Gaps? Exploring Young People’s Sex Talk on Facebook

Tien Ee Dominic Yeo; Tsz Hang Chu

doi:10.1145/3097286.3097344

Promoting Hook-Ups or Filling Sexual Health Information Gaps? Exploring Young People’s Sex Talk on Facebook

Tien Ee Dominic Yeo, Tsz Hang Chu

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Abstract

Social media hold enormous potential for sexuality education and sexual health promotion among young people given the audience reach and interactive functions that could be adapted for intervention delivery. This paper reports the preliminary findings of an ongoing research project on the use of social media as a platform for peer sexual communication, by exploring the nature of content posted on Facebook confession pages. We collected 2186 original posts rom one of these semi-Anonymous peer exchanges, a Facebook "sex secrets" page popular with college students in Hong Kong. Analysis revealed that conventional sexual activities within the context of romantic heterosexual relationships were most frequently mentioned in the posts. Problematic or risky sexual activities such as hook-ups (spontaneous casual sex) and sexting that are common among American college students were not salient. Nevertheless, the sexual culture of Hong Kong college students was not without peculiarities. Fetish or roleplay, for instance, was mentioned thrice as often as sexting. Findings on intimate concerns illuminate the needs and gaps in sexuality education and sexual health knowledge.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4847-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097344
Publication status	Published - Jul 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th International International Conference on Social Media and Society, #SMSociety 2017 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 28 Jul 2017 → 30 Jul 2017

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	Part F129683

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Conference	8th International International Conference on Social Media and Society, #SMSociety 2017
Place	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	28/07/17 → 30/07/17

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This work was supported by the Graduate School, Hong Kong Baptist University under Faculty Research Grants project no. FRG2/16-17/034.

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 5 Gender Equality

Research Keywords

College Students
Facebook
Hong Kong
Sexual Health Information
Sexuality Education
Youth

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Yeo, T. E. D., & Chu, T. H. (2017). Promoting Hook-Ups or Filling Sexual Health Information Gaps? Exploring Young People’s Sex Talk on Facebook. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society Article 58 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F129683). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097344

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Promoting Hook-Ups or Filling Sexual Health Information Gaps? Exploring Young People’s Sex Talk on Facebook. / Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic; Chu, Tsz Hang.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. 58 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F129683).

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