Interview with Siobhan, 24, Irish, middle class, Roman Catholic. Women, Risk and AIDS Project, London, 1989. Anonymised version including field notes. (Ref: LJH32)

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 Siobhan who moved to London four years ago for nursing training. She has been with her boyfriend for two years, and is certain that they will marry one day once she's ready to settle down. This is her second sexual relationship, though she regrets having sex before marriage and having an abortion, and feels a lot of shame around this - this is partly due to her very religious sex education in a convent. Her aunt gave a more comprehensive sex education when she was thirteen. Siobhan has some interesting thoughts on gender and sexual pleasure, and different gendered expectations of sexual intercourse, as well as her shock at young women's permissiveness in London compared to back home in Ireland. She thought AIDS public health campaigns were effective in terms of fear-mongering, but thinks that they should be more consistent. Siobhan doesn't think she could ask a sexual partner to use a condom, and doesn't think any of her friends use them either.本访谈隶属于女性、风险与艾滋病项目（Women, Risk and Aids Project，1989-1990年）档案库，该档案库由复苏数据项目（Reanimating Data Project，2018-2020年）牵头创建。本次内容为对西沃恩（Siobhan）的匿名访谈转录稿：她四年前移居伦敦接受护理培训，与男友相恋已满两年，并确信待自己准备好安定生活后，二人终将携手步入婚姻。这是她的第二段亲密关系，但她对婚前性行为与堕胎经历深感懊悔，因此背负强烈的羞耻感——这一情绪部分源于她在修道院接受的宗教性教育。她13岁时，姑姑曾为其提供过更为全面的性教育。西沃恩对性别与性愉悦、不同性别群体对性行为的差异化期待有着独到见解，同时也对伦敦年轻女性相较于其家乡爱尔兰更为开放的性观念感到震惊。她认为艾滋病（AIDS）公共卫生宣传活动就渲染恐慌效应而言确实起到了效果，但认为这类宣传应当更具连贯性。西沃恩坦言自己无法要求性伴侣使用安全套，同时她也判断身边的朋友均不会主动使用安全套。