
The recap reveals that Keyanna knows her boyfriend is cheating because "he gave me chlamydia before." Dante is warned that Cassandra, the mother of his child, "be around mad dudes" and is "real loose." Dante confronts Cassandra in the opening scene. The opening scene features a woman giving her ex, the father of her child, oral sex. The Free Beacon was given access to episode seven of the 12-part series. The project then received an additional four-year grant in 2015 and has received $1,109,603 so far. Hundreds are watching the series on their smartphones in a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. Jones and her team are enrolling 10 women per week in the trial through Facebook, social media, and community meetings.Ī pilot study between 20 that came up with the concept received $2,024,596. "Each of the four women are on a different path."

"So ‘Love, Sex, and Choices’ is a soap opera series that features four women, really archetypal relationship type of issues," Jones said.

Whether it’s HIV prevention or prevention of sexually transmitted infections, the reduction of intimate partner violence, or just finding a happy path, the same lessons really do apply." And the concern and the prioritizing of your own self in a relationship. "We believe that it’s very hard to promote sexual health until you first promote your love of yourself. "There are some very fundamental things about that that we want to address," Jones said. It’s put to the side when you prioritize a man’s needs and wants." "The pressure to hold onto a relationship and the pressure to get a relationship can really trump concerns about healthy loving, and loving faithfully, and protecting oneself and one’s own sexual health. "I profoundly believe-and there’s research to support this-that there are a lot of pressures on young women to engage in sex and for that sex to be unprotected," Jones told the Washington Free Beacon. Rachel Jones, an associate professor at Northeastern and principal investigator on the project, argued that the series can and is having a positive effect. The 12-episode series was created by researchers at Northeastern University and is currently being viewed by hundreds of women to see if soap operas can be effective at changing attitudes about safe sex. The soap opera follows the stories of characters Toni, Diamond, Valerie, and Keyanna. "Love, Sex, and Choices" is a "soap opera video intervention" designed to convince women to get tested and use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.


The National Institutes of Health has spent more than $3 million developing a soap opera series about HIV, which also includes an instructional video about how to put a condom on a cucumber.
