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Upcoming events
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Vaginal Wall Exhibition
The Vaginal Wall is a provocative art exhibition and thought-provoking sexual health discussion tool for promoting female-initiated HIV prevention, developed by The Pleasure Project's Anne Philpott. More >>>Condom consultancy for erotic filmmakers
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Helping you Share Your Pleasure!
Support the 'Share Your Pleasure' initiative by visiting www.passiononline.co.uk, and help promote pleasurable safer sex . The Pleasure Project has teamed up with Passion, a UK-based retailer of relationship-enhancement products, such as adult toys, sexy DVDs, lube, lingerie and more. As part of 'Share Your Pleasure', Passion will donate 30 per cent of sales from a selected range of its products to The Pleasure Project.
• read the press release
• check out the sexy Share Your Pleasure postcard
• start sharing your pleasure now!
Publications and research
The new 'Global Mapping of Pleasure'
Get information about 47 programmes, organizations and resources around the world that put the 'sex' back into sex education. Jammed with sexy images and delicious details for anyone who wants to take a more sex-positive approach to sexual health.
Read it now>>>
Download the promo postcard>>>
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
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).Publications to download:
♦ Sexy tips for Female Condoms postcard >>>♦ The Pleasure Project full-colour brochure >>>
Recent (and past) events
Bringin' it on in Bali
The Pleasure Project hosted an eye-opening Satellite Session at ICAAP9 (The 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific) in August, (Download the flyer>>) featuring: • Arushi Singh (The Pleasure Project) - sexing up safer sex, steamy (safer sex) film clips
• Philippine sex columnist and radio host Anas (aka Ana Santos) - eroticizing safer sex in a devoutly Catholic country
• Mike Kennedy (Victorian AIDS Council) - juicy sexual health campaigns for MSM in Oz
• Ashok Row Kavi (Humsafar Trust) - making condoms and lube feel fantastic for MSM in India
• DKT Indonesia - condom social marketing with pleasure appeal
April 2009 - Share-Net AGM, Amsterdam
Members of the Dutch Network on Sexual and Reproductive Health & AIDS (Share-Net) have upped their pleasure proficiency after taking part in our interactive workshop. Featuring plenty of slippery fun with condoms, the event was profiled in an article on the campaign website for Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC).
February 2009 - Terrence Higgins Trust Young Leaders Conference
The Pleasure Project helped young sexual health educators in the UK to bring pleasure and desire into the mix, with a panel discussion and workshops. Learn more about the Young Leaders project >>>The Great Wall of Vagina hits Delhi!
The Picturing the Body exhibition in Delhi featured The Pleasure Project's Great Wall of Vagina, a selection of Vaginal Wall portraits by people working in HIV and AIDS, 24 Nov - 6 Dec 2008. See photos >>>Women Deliver conference, London
Shock, curiosity and downright enthusiasm were among the reactions at the Women Deliver conference in London (18-20 October 2007). We talked about the many ways to make safer sex great sex using the 'rings of pleasure' (aka the female condom). With support from the Female Health Company, attendees received a free female condom, our postcard with sexy tips, a peek at safer-sex clips from erotic films, and information about good sex for HIV-positive women.
Sexing up the International AIDS Conferences
"The Pleasure Project session was one of the few sessions at the conference where I really absorbed something that I could apply in my work." - Arushi Singh, IPPF South Asia, Toronto conference attendee
Safer (better) sex for stroke survivors
In October 2006, The Pleasure Project discussed the challenges of safer sex with a disability at “Sex, Life and Living”, organized by Different Strokes, a group set up by young stroke survivors. At the presentation, many survivors spoke about their family and friends assuming that they would no longer have sex after a stroke, and The Pleasure Project offered some sexy tips. (www.differentstrokes.co.uk)
Helping health educators talk about sex in Cambodia and Vietnam
In December 2004, CARE Cambodia invited The Pleasure Project to facilitate a three-day “pleasure proficiency” training for their sexual health educators, alongside CARE Cambodia’s experienced training staff. CARE Cambodia is on the cutting edge of recognizing the need to integrate principles of pleasure into sexual and reproductive health training materials, and for their sexual health educators to be able to facilitate open, honest discussions about sex and sexuality. We facilitated “Sex, Safer Sex and Pleasure” training by creating a safe space where the educators could talk openly about sex, sexuality, desire and pleasure. And we provided participants with tools for opening up honest and non-judgmental discussions about sex, pleasure and safer sex with their communities. Learn about our work with NGOs >>>
