\u201cPeople living in rural and remote areas already face challenges accessing sexual healthcare and wellness products, which makes tackling this stigma all the more important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Share Satisfaction owner Nicola Relph says rural women need better access to sexual wellbeing products.<\/p>\n
Fieldays is the largest agricultural showcase in the Southern Hemisphere, it features more than 1100 exhibitors and vendors that showcase key aspects of rural life.<\/p>\n
One of the most popular hubs is the Health and Wellbeing Hub, which features exhibits from Rural Support, Bowel Cancer New Zealand and the Breast Cancer Foundation.<\/p>\n
This year will also include stalls from Fertility Associates, Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa and Chemist Warehouse.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Coast and Country News in May, Mark Eager, the chief executive of Mobile Health, said the Health and Wellbeing Hub was \u201cas big as it\u2019s ever been\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cRural people don\u2019t have a chance to access such services all under one roof.\u201d<\/p>\n
Relph said access issues were particularly acute in farming communities, where travel distances and time away from work can make healthcare harder to access.<\/p>\n
\u201cFieldays is one of the few calendar events where they make a real effort to attend and are highly engaged, making it a prime opportunity to educate and normalise open conversation about sexual wellness, pelvic health and overall wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the need for better access was especially important for rural women, given maternal, sexual, and reproductive health have long been priority issues in rural communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a presence at Fieldays is not just about the products for us \u2013 it\u2019s more about having those open, honest conversations and breaking down barriers to sexual wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Relph said the company would have taken a conservative approach to its display if it had been permitted to exhibit, forgoing phallic pelvis products in favour of Kegel balls and dilators.<\/p>\n
Share Satisfaction\u2019s certified sex educator Emma Hewitt-Johnson said postpartum sexual health was already often overlooked in care for new mothers.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, postpartum sex, pleasure and intimacy is rarely part of the conversation with doctors and midwives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fieldays is one of the biggest events in the agricultural calendar.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the Herald, Fieldays reiterated the decision was made in line with exhibitor guidelines restricting R18 products and content at the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cFieldays is a family-friendly, agricultural event with a diverse audience, including a significant number of young people,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The organisation said it also reserves the right to accept or decline applications that do not align with the event\u2019s purpose of advancing agriculture.<\/p>\n
It acknowledged the importance of sexual health and wellbeing, noting the \u201cfamily-friendly\u201d Fieldays Hauora Taiwhenua Health and Wellbeing Hub formed an important part of the expo programme.<\/p>\n
Fieldays said its policies are reviewed regularly and it would be open to future proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople living in rural and remote areas already face challenges accessing sexual healthcare and wellness products, which makes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[542,1558,46330,4463,2562,10709,237685,9881,128744,134,45206,76,661,111,43,139,69,2738,173328,38606,3175,18371,17703,2122,13422,5510,80],"class_list":["post-469959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-access","tag-been","tag-blocks","tag-brand","tag-claims","tag-concerns","tag-exhibitor","tag-facing","tag-fieldays","tag-health","tag-highlighting","tag-issue","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-reigniting","tag-rejected","tag-rural","tag-satisfaction","tag-sexual","tag-share","tag-stall","tag-wellness","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}