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Inter Press Service
A World AIDS Day report on the global effort to eroticize safer sex and improve sexual health. Read the article.IRIN/PlusNews
This global source for news and analysis on HIV and AIDS reported on The Pleasure Project's eye-opening and highly instructive workshops at the 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), in Colombo, Sri Lanka (August 2007). Read the article or learn more about the workshop.
The Lancet
The Lancet (2 Dec 2006), one of the most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, featured "Promoting protection and pleasure", co-authored by The Pleasure Project and Dermot Maher of WHO. The article gives evidence that a sexier approach to promoting condoms could lower rates of sexually transmitted infections. Read the press release or the article.
Reproductive Health Matters
Reproductive Health Matters, one of the foremost journals on sexual and reproductive health, featured this peer-reviewed article in its Nov 2006 issue, which was co-authored by Vicky Boydell, PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. The article offers tips and information about how to eroticise male and female condoms and make safer sex feel good. Read the press release or access the article online.
Positively Women magazine
The Winter 2007 issue of this quarterly magazine – which is written and edited by women living with HIV – featured sexy tips for HIV-positive women from The Pleasure Project. Read the article online. (Women living with HIV can receive the magazine free of charge – www.positivelywomen.org.uk).More pleasurable headlines
'Time to stand up for the condom'
Sydney Morning Herald (7 Dec 2006)
'The hardcore way to safer sex'
The Times (3 Sep 2005)
'Whatever happened to the Femidom?'
The Guardian (23 Aug 2005)
'Lunch with the Lancet'
The Lancet (12 February 2005)
'10 love moves no man can resist'
Cosmo extra (Mar 2005)
'Can safe sex be good sex?'
Choices magazine (Dec 2004)
Sydney Morning Herald (7 Dec 2006)
'The hardcore way to safer sex'
The Times (3 Sep 2005)
'Whatever happened to the Femidom?'
The Guardian (23 Aug 2005)
'Lunch with the Lancet'
The Lancet (12 February 2005)
'10 love moves no man can resist'
Cosmo extra (Mar 2005)
'Can safe sex be good sex?'
Choices magazine (Dec 2004)
“The Pleasure Project first shook things up at the … AIDS conference in 2002 … At the 2004 Bangkok AIDS conference, the organisation hosted a discussion on introducing pleasure into sexual health programming … Their ‘Global Mapping of Pleasure’ initiative is a rich resource of projects and organisations that put pleasure first in AIDS prevention...” IndiaeNews.com
“Mitchell [Warren, executive director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative] praised The Pleasure Project, a British-based organization that works “to put the pleasure back in safer sex” and presents female condoms as a sex toy.” Ms. Magazine
“Lessons in erotic art, pornography and talking dirty have been a spicy addition to the global AIDS forum here as campaigners try to make safe sex, well, sexy. "Sex sells," commented one of over 100 delegates who crammed into a tiny room for a seminar entitled ‘Where is the Pleasure in Safe Sex?’ Yahoo! News
“ … The Pleasure Project … has helped health educators in Cambodia to break the shyness barrier in talking about sex … compiled a list of dozens of groups worldwide pushing the Kama Sutra to teach prostitutes how to pleasure clients without penetration and other tricks, and showed British film directors how to use condoms in porn movies "in a sexy way … " Yahoo! News
The Erotic Awards raises funds for Outsiders, a disability charity that runs the National Sex and Disability Helpline and a unique club that enables disabled people to make new friends and find sexual partners. In 2005, The Pleasure Project's Anne Philpott was nominated as "Campaigner of the Year". Read more about the Erotic Awards>>>
