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My Sex Doctor: There’s an app for everything

Brianne Kane Staff Writer

Sexuality is a fact, it just happens. This is the motto of the new sexual health and information app called My Sex Doctor. This app has countless resources for information, ranging from how to flirt with someone to what exactly an abortion is. Founder of the app, Fabrizio Dolfi, explains that it’s for people who didn’t get the sex education they could have used.

“As young people mature, they should have easy access to reliable and easy to understand information about sex and sexuality,” said Dolfi.

What Dolfi means here, as explained in the brief commercial on their website, is that kids rarely know where to find reliable and easy to access information about sex. For example, talking to parents about sex is closer to torturous than helpful. Google-ing to your heart’s content might get you information, but not reliable necessarily and although free, not always easy to access.

The app only launched last July, but is already receiving positive feedback and always working on updating itself. The app’s range of material as well as apparent age of audience, which is geared toward college kids and high school freshmen, make the writing of the app comical and add to the casualness of sexual education the app hoped to inspire. The full app costs 99 cents, the “LITE” version is free, although both require being 17 or older. The app however deals with more than just sex; there are topics of menstruation, relationships, as well as pregnancy options for unexpectant parents, as well as “what’s happening to my body” which focuses on puberty changes. All in all, for those passed puberty and who feel they know about sex, the app can be quite funny while being informational.

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My Sex Doctor tries to answer those questions in a conversational, less medical, way to it can be clear and memorable. The app is fairly easy to figure out; first, choose a topic, for example, “my first time,” second choose a sub topic, such as, “how do I know if I am ready to have sex?” then read a brief answer whose length is less than a brochure.

The odd part of the My Sex Doctor app is that it wasn’t written by a sex doctor. Dolfi has a degree in computer science and an MBA from NYU, but no degree relating to sexual health or sexuality. This becomes apparent occasionally in the app where a medical professional would explain or phrase something in the standard accepted jargon of sexual health this app uses casualness and youth to avoid such. Meaning the CDC, or Center for Disease Control and Prevention, explains oral sex as follows on their website: “Oral sex involves giving or receiving oral stimulation [i.e., sucking or licking] to the penis, the vagina, and/or the anus. Fellatio is the technical term used to describe oral contact with the penis. Cunnilingus is the technical term which describes oral contact with the vagina. Anilingus [sometimes called “rimming”] refers to oral-anal contact…many adolescents who engage in oral sex do not consider it to be “sex;” therefore they may use oral sex as an option to experience sex while still, in their minds, remaining abstinent.”

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However, the My Sex Doctor app explains oral sex as: “Oral sex is the stimulation of a person’s genitals with the mouth and tongue…Oral sex tends to be very popular because it can create very intense pleasurable sensations. Many people say that oral stimulation of the genitals, if properly performed, can cause sensations that are far more intense than those experienced during sexual intercourse. For women in particular, the importance of oral sex can go well beyond the strong sensation it offers. In fact, many women who are incapable of reaching an orgasm through penetration are able to do so through oral stimulation.” Here the medical phrasing of the CDC compared to the conversational My Sex Doctor app is undeniable.

Also, considering that Dolfi has no medical degree and no resources are listed as available to research one is left to question: how reliable is the app that prides itself on reliability? Because there is no way to see where this app found it’s information, there is no way to check it unless one checks it against groups like CDC.  Because of this, going to a free clinic or the free health center might be a better option – at least there, your “sex doctor” is a real doctor.

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