Work.

Kids These Days:
The sexual life of the U.S. teen by age (ages 15-18)

Second edition (Printed by Blurb)

After beginning to work with the Guttmacher Institute (thinktank that compiles data about reproductive health worldwide), there was an obstacle that began to fascinate me when information designing: depicting sex clearly without being too abstract or too forward.

I decided to challenge myself by collecting data about teenagers' sexual lives and creating an information piece for parents to, for lack of a better phrase, not freak out so much. I decided the piece wouldn't include the scary things: STD rates, pregnancy rates, abortion rates, and so forth, but would include how safe teen sex actually is. Then, for an extra kick of rhetoric, I would compare it with what kind of sex education they learned and what age they learned it.

I wanted parents to feel like they could share the info easily. For that reason, I decided a small referential handbook would be the best bet for a medium—something mothers could carry in a purse and lend without too much effort. I divided each section by age and made subsections for gender. Finally, I wanted the piece to be playful but personal, so I received permission from photographer Veronica Hansen to use photos from her "Young and Away" collection.

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