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It’s now proven jerking off is not bad for you and it’s even not only okay for you – but it’s positively good for your health. The Pleasure Project has been pushing the art of touching yourself as safe good sex for a while. Now a recent study have shown that boys who report being regular wankers are more likely to use a condom when they have sex.
The study published in this month’s “Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine” interviewed a small, but cross sectional sample of American young people and has many findings that would not surprise any of us pleasure seekers.
Across all ages young men admitted to wanking more than women , 74% of men to 41% women ( come on girls start admitting to your own self worship.) Masturbation increased with age and in men the five knuckle shuffle was associated with condom use, but in women it was not.
We Pleasure Propagandists posit that this might be because those young men love touching their members and know just how to roll a condom on in a sexy way and are, lets face it, more comfortable with themselves and therefore better lovers. What’s your theory ?
The authors conclude that “Health care providers should recognize that many teens masturbate and discuss masturbation with patients because masturbation is integral to normal sexual development”.
Um yeh…..so it’s great that masturbation is being seen as “normal” by the medical world and fantastic that an association between wanking and condom use in young men has been discovered.
Just a shame that it’s taken so long.
Whats your theory – why do wanking men use condoms more ?
Tags: condoms, five knuckle shuffle, pediatric and adolescent medicine, wanking
So all our dear pleasure loving safety conscious sexy people,
We know that you have got the hang of talking dirty when you want safer sex. We know you say things like this.
” Sweetie let me slowly carefully consciously unroll this tight fitting sex toy all the way down your cock so that I can feel the bumps on it grind me as we fuck. “
and you follow it up with “Because I wanna have a long relaxed sexy breakfast with you tomorrow rather than rushing out to get the morning after pill or got for an STI test”
But maybe some of you are still worried. You are having good.safe.sex.
You know how to Put the pleasure into prevention.
But what about ethical ? What about those sexy ribbed sex toys…..can you relax knowing that no harm was done whilst they were being made ?
Worry no more. 
Well we just heard that now you can buy fair trade condoms called fair squared condoms. Rubber sourced in Kerala (which is possibly the sexiest state in India in itself…)…and then processed in a carbon neutral factory with some of the profits going to charity.
How about that. Now we can all really relax into it.
Knowing we are pleasured, protected and saving the planet as we fuck.
Tags: condoms, ethical, fair trade, good safe sex, kerala, male condoms, pleasure, safer sex, sex toys
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Tags: candace bushnell, desires, good safe sex, indian fantasies, pleasure propaganda, survey, the pleasure project
This is our third and final post from Arushi at the World Sexual Health Congress in Glasgow, where she also explored the wonderful world of the orgasm.
Score one for pleasure
Orgasm – the word itself is orgasmic. It begins with making your mouth open into the O of wonder, astonishment and exciting shock and ends with your mouth closed in an mmmm of pleasure, contentment and satisfaction. Right? Hmm, not necessarily actually!
I learnt about the tome which is used by psychologists, psychiatrists, sex and 
relationship therapists, sexologists and other health professionals to help their diagnoses and treatments. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been revised several times, including the time when homosexuality was struck off it as a mental disorder.
According to the DSM, most sexual dysfunctions are defined as either not having an orgasm during sex or having one too quickly. So does that mean that orgasm is or should be the main outcome of sexual intercourse and sexual activity? No, says Dr Meg Barker. Orgasms mean different things to different people and constitute different experiences, from an expression of power to a mechanical release or a display of intimacy.
This is why, she says that sex and relationship therapy aimed at enabling orgasms and being goal focused rather than pleasure focused is forcing norms on people that just don’t fit.
Sexual satisfaction shouldn’t just be about having an orgasm.
Guess who agrees with her? Dr. Beverly Whipple – yup, the one who told us all about the G-spot! She emphasised the need to be pleasure oriented rather than orgasm oriented. An orgasm is not an end in itself and all the other activities, commonly considered to ‘lead up’ to the orgasm, like kissing, holding, touching, are each an end in themselves. Also, the idea really is to experience an orgasm, rather than be under pressure to ‘reach’ or ‘achieve’ an orgasm. In her words, “a person can express their sexuality in many ways, not only through their genitals.”
That’s what we at The Pleasure Project believe as well – there are sooooo many sexy and safe ways of pleasuring yourself or each other that you could spend a month of O’s and mmmm’s just going through our list on sexy tips !
Tags: Beveley Whipple, DSM, g spot, Meg Barker, orgasm, orgasms, satisfaction, sexy tips
Arushi Singh, ace Pleasure Propagandist based in Delhi and Goa, spent June in the sunny climes of Glasgow learning all there could be about good safe sex. Here is her first report home.
Ever heard of a soggy sao?
This Pleasure Propagandist got to go to a sexology conference for the first time and boy was it an incredible experience! The 20th World Congress for Sexual Health in Glasgow, was jam-packed with sexologists, sex and relationship therapists and sex educators.
I found a sex education specialist who could well feature in the third edition of The Pleasure Project’s “The Global Mapping of Pleasure”. Dr. Lorel Mayberry runs a 14-week Sexology elective at the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. I was lucky enough to participate in a
two-hour workshop by her where she took us through some of the teaching methods she uses with young people. One of these being the ‘Saucy Sexy Scale’.
A scale that helps people understand which sexual acts are high risk, low risk or no risk for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. It does this in the sauciest way possible – with pictures!
Now before I describe the scale to you, the story of how it was developed must be told. A group of ‘at-risk’ young people from a Brisbane Youth 
Centre got a $1000 grant. They spent $990 on food and alcohol and $10 on Play-Doh. Do you know how many sexual positions you can create with Play-Doh?! That’s what they did – they used the Play-Doh to make little, colourful people in all kinds of sexy positions, including golden showers and a soggy sao ! A friend of theirs took photographs of each position and voila! They had postcards, each with a saucy sexy act on it with the Play-Doh figures getting it on and the description written behind. So you get to discuss each of the positions and sex acts, learn about new ones you never knew of and place them on a scale from no, low, medium to high risk – so you know how to be safe too.
Play Doh will never look the same to me . Maybe they inspired this play doh porn – looks pretty safe to us..
Arushi Singh, Pleasure Propagandist based in Delhi and Goa, India has been working with The Pleasure Project for the past few years in a number of ways, training young people to sexy up their sex education in the UK, doing pleasure body mapping at the Bali Global AIDS conference and encouraging all to draw on our Great Wall of Vagina in Delhi. She attended the World Association of Sexual Health in Glasgow and we asked her to write about it for us…..more coming later this week
Tags: Europe, glasgow, good safe sex, Joy of Sex, play doh, play-doh porn, pleasure, research, safe sex scale, safer sex, soggy sao, young people