A Virtual Environment Enhancing Sexual Health Promotion

The SexualHealthNet virtual environment facilitates the access of the population, as well as of professionals, to reliable sources of information about the areas of sexology and sexual health promotion, related research, current events, and training opportunities. Part of the services offered in the environment require registration, and part of them are open to all visitors. Registration is required for such services as booking an appointment for sexual counselling, guidance or therapy. The users of the service can ask questions, which will be answered by students of sexology or by professionals. The questions will be visible to all the visitors of the site once they have been answered, thus benefiting a larger group of users. Experts are offered consultation and mentoring services. The SexualHealthNet provides the opportunity to read, without registration, the online journal ’Seksuaaliterveys’ (Sexual Health), published by the Centre of Expertise for Sexual Health. The online journal is primarily intended for professionals, and functions as an unofficial creator of a national network for sexual health. All the users have access to the sexual education game SexualHealthQuiz, primarily targeted at young people, which can be used to test one’s knowledge level