Youth Against AIDS is a successful, well established NGO whose mission it is to provide a young audience with all the knowledge necessary to enjoy their sexuality in a fulfilling, inclusive and, above all, safe manner. Up until now, their activities have mostly consisted of educational campaigns, workshops and events as well as smaller sexual health giveaways like condoms and flyers. Realizing that there was the potential to make a much larger impact by utilizing the resources of the state, they asked us to help develop a campaign to influence the sexual health education in German schools. And because their own resources were limited, they asked us to do so on a tight budget.

Because the objective was so ambitious and our budget was limited, we decided on an all or nothing approach. Rather than just add a few more official workshops to our portfolio, we wanted to revolutionize the way that sex and love are talked about in German sex-ed classes. And because we knew how tedious and expensive it was to work towards such a change within the system, we decided to go around it. We anticipated that, if we could just show our target audience that a different kind of sexual education was possible, they would do our work for us and pressure their schools and teachers to adapt. That meant producing modern, approachable and inclusive educational content that our target audience could relate to and delivering it to them in a way that they felt comfortable with. That is how FAQ YOU was born.

The book was produced and launched with the help of a number of popular German influencers, youtubers and twitch-streamers. This allowed us to create a pretty significant media resonance without having to expend a lot of resources while also guaranteeing authenticity and reliability within our target audience. A streamlined launch campaign with select events as well as OOH and digital assets added to the initial buzz and made sure the book was a success – both commercially and as a free giveaway to schools. About a year later we launched the website in a similar way, focussing on digital media in particular and supplementing it with social media activities, especially on TikTiok. This is where (allegedly) the German minister of health became aware of our initiative and asked us to cooperate. In a process that continues till today, we then developed a database with teaching materials that can