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Beyond the Pleasure Prinicple – we are getting great press

22/07/2010 in *What We're Up To, Meetings & Publications, News About Us, Uncategorized by Annie | No comments

The Pleasure Project has got heaps of people talking…and made it into quite a few news channels…

Here we are interviewed by AIDSChicago

and talked about on Reuters and IRIN  news

http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89919

And some other people are talking about pleasure too now – the world is listening !

Young people need more pleasure

http://www.sxmislandtime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11262:prevention-psas-need-more-pleasure-&catid=31:general&Itemid=76

http://news.caribseek.com/Global_Caribbean/printer_88169.shtml

the newly proven Microbicide gels can be marketed for pleasure

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-19/vaginal-gel-cuts-hiv-infections-while-blocking-herpes.html

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Huge gay sex, MTV and spanking

22/07/2010 in *What We're Up To, Meetings & Publications by Wendy | No comments

While not every session at AIDS 2010 is blog-worthy, it’s been a fantastic opportunity to catch up with Pleasure Project fans and friends, including Mike Kennedy from the Victorian AIDS Council in Australia. He gifted us with a huge (and I mean huge) calendar featuring (huge) pics of (huge) hot gay sex … just the kind of thing to hang on the office wall and impress the boss.

We’ve also hooked up with Support, the non-profit arm of the company that makes female condoms. They organized a workshop to promote female condoms to men, which included folks from Durex Condoms, MTV and BBC World Service Trust. Last night we sipped, nibbled and talked pleasure with them and others at the Viacom (i.e., parent company of MTV) party.

While not everyone at the party had heard of The Pleasure Project, when asked if they’d seen the posters about masturbation, porn during the plenary and spanking between sessions, most lit up with a spark of recognition and a cheeky grin. One more poster to go, and many more fantasies to spark. Stay tuned!

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Will you play with yourself tonight ?

21/07/2010 in *What We're Up To, Meetings & Publications by Annie | No comments

That was the Pleasure Project’s opening line at Vienna 2010 -(the biggest global AIDS conference ever happening this week – with 25,000 people gathering from all over the world)   It was all part of our campaign to get public health people to put a bit more pleasure in their life and a bounce in their step. It seems to be working. We put up new posters all over the venue every day . . . . with suggestions about what ELSE participants might be doing besides working hard. It seems to be getting us a good reaction…….See the fantasies posted on this blog…

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Share your AIDS2010 Fantasies

13/07/2010 in *AIDS2010 Fantasies, *What We're Up To, Meetings & Publications by Krissy | No comments

Tell us a juicy story… you know, that one that you were thinking of during the plenary, when your mind wandered from multiple concurrent relationships in a faraway land to multiple concurrent relationships in the room next door.

Just send a plain text email to fantasy@thepleasureproject.org. Don’t worry, it won’t even show your email address to us. Or, if you prefer, post a comment here. Remember, we’ll share our favorite fantasies, but we’ll never tell who we’ve kissed.

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The Great Wall of Vagina – in Delhi this Saturday

13/05/2010 in *What We're Up To by Annie | No comments

Please come and draw a vagina, your vision of one or one you know well….this Saturday at the Habitat Centre in Delhi….at the Great Wall of Art…

The Center for Human Progress (CHP) and several eminent partners, including the Delhi Government, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), United Nations will host the first-of-its-kind Art for Life (A4L) initiative, which will be launched at the India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi on 15 May, 2010. Art for Life (A4L) aims to use art as a medium of communication for HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights and generate public awareness through its contribution of art to the largest canvas dedicated to these issues.

The A4L launch event is scheduled to be held at India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodi Road on 15 May, 2010. Thereafter, we intend to move the canvas to various locations – e.g., important venues, schools and public places — of the NCR area and some major cities around the country, inviting public contribution of messages related to HIV-SRHR using art.

Once complete, the canvas will be exhibited during the upcoming Common Wealth Games in Delhi, on World AIDS Day, and finally, it will find a permanent and prominent place within the city-scape of Delhi. It is expected that A4L will mark history as a largest piece of art on HIV-SRHR generated through public participation .

http://www.thepleasureproject.org/inv/vaginalwall

Want to see my full page spread in Playboy ?

11/05/2010 in *What We're Up To by Annie | No comments

I honestly never thought these were words I would utter. (Well maybe I practised a few times in front of the mirror with a hairbrush) Life is full of surprises.

Earlier this year Playboy Philippines ran a  feature on women and porn and yours truly was interviewed – alongside the great and the good of women in porn. The Pleasure Project’s great friends Suzanne Noble and Anna Span http://annaspansdiary.com/.

The article shows that safe is sexy – and women making great porn are imaginative, clever and out to rule the world. The article also interviews one of the great female porn makers that I met in Berlin at the Porn festival, Catherine Brownfield, a director who is pushing the boundaries of safer sex and porn. She knows that safer sex porn is only more creative, more exciting and ultimately more fulfilling ……than mainstream porn.

Suzanne talks about  finding actors for making Modern Lovin’ a sexy safer sex film, The Pleasure Project provided condom consultancy on set.  I talk about my amazement about how they kept it up. Porn actors deserve medals.

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