At 11:47 p.m., every screen in the city turns red.An emergency alert interrupts the night, issuing a single instruction: do not sleep. In seven minutes, something will arrive — not announced, not explained, only counted down. As the timer bleeds toward zero, households are forced to choose between exhaustion and obedience, doubt and survival.Because when the countdown ends, it isn’t the broadcast that goes silent…it’s the people who failed to stay awake.

Communicating Intimate Health presents an edited collection of original, empirical research, personal essays, autoethnography, critical reviews, and theoretical work showcasing advances in intimate health research from the field of communication studies. Intimate health includes sexual and reproductive health, sexual activity, sexuality, gender, and reproductive justice. The contributors vulnerably engage subjects including: parent-child, partner, patient-provider, and larger societal disc...