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Why pleasure and development should not be strangers in bed…

07/03/2011 in Pleasure News & Views, Sex in the News by Annie | No comments

There is a great new blog on the UK Guardian’s “poverty matters” blog

” Love and Money: Why secooking stove and sexx and development are not strange bedfellows”. here it is

It is a great  rallying cry about the need to think more about sexuality when it comes to development work – and for health and education services to be  more effective by recognising departures from sexual norms.

But we did make a little comment about the fact that all the examples chosen are negative examples of how sexuality affects development: women as victims of violence, girls unable to attend school due to menstruation, people killed because they are gay.

What about more examples of all the good things that can come from our sexuality and sex lives – empowerment, pleasure, self awareness and more safer sex…..?

Check our comment below the article and here.

The Crown Jewels:Royal Condoms that don’t work

01/02/2011 in Sex in the News by Annie | No comments

We are loving the fact that souvenir royal wedding condoms have hit the London streets…..but there is a huge downside. They don’t work.

The “royal purple” 3 condom pack  has a picture of Prince William and Kate Middleton on the front.

We do like how the official website tries to sexy up the royal family and condoms

“Combining the strength of a Prince with the yielding sensitivity of a Princess-to-be, Crown Jewels condoms promise a royal union of pleasure. Truly a King amongst Condoms.”

Inside the box there is a saucy guide to use the ‘Heritage Edition’ condoms boosting  “England boasts some of the finest lovemaking in the world, with a tradition going back generations”. I’m not a Royalist but they will win me over with that sort  sort of flattery.

However the website also states ” Crown Jewels Royal Wedding Souvenir Condoms are a novelty condom not suitable for contraception or protection against STDs.”

Why ? And why are they allowed to sell them if that is the case ?

We might be seeing quite a few royal babies next year..

Did you get off at AIDS2010?

10/10/2010 in *AIDS2010 Fantasies, *What We're Up To, News About Us, Sex in the News by Krissy | No comments

We certainly did. Read about the campaign in our newsletter, here: http://eepurl.com/63RQ!

Was it Safer Sex ? Big budget porn film shot in London hospital

06/07/2010 in Sex in the News by Annie | No comments

A UK  hospital has been exposed for renting out wards to make extra cash – by shooting a porn film in a hospital ward – lets hope is was safer sex….. it seems no-one is asking THAT question in the Houses of Parliament.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/10518917.stm

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Masturbation Education

22/11/2009 in People We Like, Sex in the News by Annie | No comments

If you don't love yourself how can you let other people love you ?We at The Pleasure Project would like to congratulate Extremadura region in Spain for a truly brilliant, rational and imminently sensible education programme to improve self pleasuring in the region. Masturbation is safe, makes you feel good – and lets you know what you like – also everyone does it or at last thinks about doing it. And yet it is conspicuously absent in any kind of sex education for young people. By not talking about wanking – we stop young people knowing about a great safer sex method. After all if you don’t love yourself how can you let other people love you ?

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Condoms are becoming more popular?

23/10/2009 in Sex in the News by Krissy | No comments

The media has given some attention this week to a new report from the UK’s NHS that shows condoms becoming more popular (for instance, The Times and The Daily Mail). I must say, the report contains a wealth of information. But it’s also kind of strange. Let’s first look at the pill/condom issue:

Percent using pill or condom

Source: Opinions Survey Report No. 41 Contraception and Sexual Heath, 2008/09

So, there has been an increase in the popularity of condoms, but for most groups, they are still less popular than the pill. The report doesn’t offer any suggestions about why the 30-34-year-olds have a seemingly high rate of pill use, nor on why the 40-44-year-olds have a low rate. Nor does it tell us if those differences are statistically significant. In fact, I couldn’t find any information about how many people composed each age group… so I have my doubts.

Anyhow, there were other interesting contradictions that the media didn’t pick up on. For instance:

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