San Francisco has become the first city in the U.S. to offer safer sex advice to teenagers via SMS. With this latest service come to live, it’s no doubt the city is currently ranked just behind Seattle as the nation’s most “unwired city” in the U.S.

The text-messaging program is basically directed at young people ages 12 to 24. According to Michelle Irving, a 22-year-old peer educator with the city’s Department of Public Health, a lot of teenagers don’t go to clinics, and they’re afraid to ask questions regarding sex, such as problem with broken condoms and how to respond to pressures to have sex.

Users of this SMS service send a message regarding any Sex Info to one of the two phone numbers provided by health department. Normally within seconds, a reply asking for clarifying their situation will be received. The whole back-and-forth process takes one or two minutes, and most messages ends with a phone number to call for further help.

The program not only helps teenagers to clear doubts about sex, it provides information that’s reliable, quick, nonjudgmental and private too.

How nice if we have such a program like this here too, despite it will cost about $2,500 a month to run the automated program.

{tags}Sex, Sex Advice, SMS{/tags}