Interview with Stacey, 20 - 21, White British, working class. Women, Risk and AIDS Project, Manchester, 1989. Anonymised version including fieldnotes (Ref: MAG12)

This interview is part of the Women, Risk and Aids Project (1989-90) archive which was created as part of the Reanimating Data Project (2018-20).Anonymised transcript of an interview with Stacey, who is completing a science degree. She comes from a working class background, and has had a difficult family life, especially concerning her relationship with her mother. Her mum has quite negative attitudes towards sex and believes that it is 'all that men want women for', so there was no positive talk around sexuality and relationships at home. Stacey has had a couple of boyfriends, but is now engaged to her male partner who she met in sixth form - she finds it difficult to trust him, due to her home life and past relationships. A previous partner was an alcoholic who tried to sexually assault her. She notes that there was pressure at school to find a partner, and there was a divide between the popular crowd and those who worked hard in relation to who was considered attractive. She learnt about sex and relationships largely through teen girl and women's magazines, and had no formal sex education at school - the (male) teacher was too embarrassed, but she does remember watching one film which could be about sexual consent. She would have liked more comprehensive sex education that talked about navigating sexual relationships. There was one girl at school that had been labelled a 'slag', but Stacey still thought was a nice girl, despite her reputation and expression of sexual freedom. Stacey thinks that a lot of her friends were sexually active, but that no one openly discussed it - Stacey was quite surprised when she got to university and discovered her female friends were having casual sex and were fairly open about it. She had her first sexual debut at 18 with a boyfriend at the time, but felt she had a very passive role in this sexual relationship (though she is much more aware of her own sexual pleasure now). They used condoms, as she was worried about pregnancy. She couldn't imagine having a casual sexual relationship. Stacey didn't hear about AIDS until her first year of university, but had seen some adverts on TV, and initially thought it was reserved for drug users and gay men (especially American ones) - this was supported by her gay male landlords promiscuous sexual behaviour. She does recognise that her landlord gave her a 'distorted' view of (male) homosexuality, and does not believe that he represents all gay men. Stacey doesn't think that her or her friends are at risk and most of her friends use the pill, rather than condoms - she associates condoms with being young and juvenile. She does consider safe-sex to be sex with condoms in the context of AIDS protection, and limiting numbers of sexual partners.

本次访谈系1989-90年间“女性、风险与艾滋病项目”档案的一部分，该档案系2018-20年间“数据复苏项目”的组成部分。访谈对象为Stacey，她正在完成科学学位的学习。Stacey出身于工人阶级家庭，经历了艰难的家庭生活，尤其是与母亲的关系。她的母亲对性持有相当消极的态度，认为‘男人对女人不过如此’，因此家中并未就性或关系进行过积极的讨论。Stacey曾有过几位男朋友，但现在她已与她高中时认识的男性伴侣订婚——由于家庭背景和过往的感情经历，她难以信任他。她的一位前任伴侣是酗酒者，曾试图对她实施性侵。她指出，学校中存在寻找伴侣的压力，流行群体与勤奋学习群体之间存在着吸引力认知上的差异。Stacey关于性及关系的知识主要来源于少女和女性杂志，她在学校并未接受过正式的性教育——（男性）教师感到尴尬，但她还记得看过一部可能涉及性同意的电影。她希望有更为全面的性教育，讨论如何处理性关系。学校中有一位女孩被贴上了‘荡妇’的标签，但Stacey仍认为她是个好女孩，尽管她的名声和展现的性自由。Stacey认为她的许多朋友都很活跃于性，但没有人公开讨论此事——当她在大学中发现她的女性朋友都在进行着随意的性行为，并且对此相当开放时，她感到非常惊讶。她在18岁时与当时的男友开始了她的首次性行为，但觉得自己在这一性关系中扮演了非常被动的角色（尽管她现在对自己的性快感有了更多的认识）。他们使用避孕套，因为她担心怀孕。她无法想象拥有一段随意的性关系。Stacey直到大学一年级时才听说艾滋病，但她曾在电视上看到过一些广告，最初认为这种疾病仅限于吸毒者和同性恋者（尤其是美国同性恋者）——这一点得到了她同性恋男性房东放荡性行为的支持。她承认，她的房东对她（男性）同性恋的看法是‘扭曲’的，并且她不相信他代表了所有同性恋者。Stacey认为她和她的朋友都不存在感染风险，她们中的大多数朋友选择使用避孕药而非避孕套——她将避孕套与年轻和幼稚联系在一起。她确实认为，在艾滋病防护的背景下，使用避孕套是安全性行为，并且限制性伴侣数量是必要的。