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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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Pleasure & Women’s Empowerment

22/01/2010 in *What We're Up To, Meetings & Publications, News About Us by Krissy | 1 comment

imgorgeous_145Last month, I kicked off the December holidays with a trip to IDS for a workshop on Pleasure and Women’s Empowerment. From the get-go, I knew it was going to be a fun meeting. We started off with dinner and a conversation (as so many sexually pleasurable things do), where we got a chance to meet all of the different participants who’d come from around the world. We got into some serious conversations pretty quickly… “Do you want sexual pleasure all of the time?”, “Is BDSM an internalization of social norms?”… let’s just say I knew it wasn’t going to be a boring workshop.

Over the course of the three days, we heard many perspectives on sexuality, pleasure, empowerment, women, gender, and more. And yet, even with diverse participants coming from different areas of work, backgrounds, countries, and professions, we still found an impressive amount of common ground.

Here are some of the biggest points for me:

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Being Positive about HIV/AIDS

15/09/2009 in News About Us, Pleasure News & Views by Krissy | 1 comment

Our friend Ana Santos recently published a column in the Manila Times and on her blog entitled “Being Positive About HIV/AIDS“.  She has graciously granted us permission to repost the column here, but you can also read it on her website.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

THE SINGLE FILES
By Ana Santos
Being positive about HIV/AIDS

By the time that this column comes out, the 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Bali, Indonesia would have come to an end.

ICAAP is the world’s second biggest gathering of HIV/AIDS public health-care specialists, policy makers, international donor groups, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV/PLWA), and HIV/AIDS activists from various backgrounds to share knowledge, skills, ideas and research related to HIV and AIDS.

As the conference comes to an end, I now reflect on the many things that made an impact on me during this Congress—my first ever HIV/AIDS conference.

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We’re in Playboy!

12/09/2009 in News About Us by Krissy | No comments

PlayboyEveryone over here on the Pleasure Project team was super excited to see our name in the latest issue of Playboy in the Philippines! The article occupies an illustrious three pages, and describes in detail some of our tips for sexing up your safer sex life.

The more adventurous ones can experiment with having their partner put it on with her mouth – it’ll drive you crazy! She can gently suck the teat of the condom between her teeth (no biting!) and then roll it down your penis, licking you on the way down. (p. 88)

You can see the complete information about the September issue at Playboy‘s website, and pick up a copy at newsstands in the Philippines!

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Greetings from the Pleasure-Sphere!

14/08/2009 in News About Us by Wendy | No comments

Take part in the tête-à-tête about pleasure & safer sex

Take part in the tête-à-tête about pleasure & safer sex

The Pleasure Project has been spreading its mantra of pleasurable safer sex around the world for five years, and now we’ve brought the sexy banter to the blogosphere.

Stay up to date with the latest thinking on the pleasure approach to safer sex and upcoming and recent pleasure events. You can also share your comments and ideas – whether you’re a sex educator, public health promoter, sexual health researcher, porn star or a fan of good sex.

Workshop at Share-Net Meeting

24/07/2009 in Meetings & Publications, News About Us by Krissy | No comments

On April 16, 2009, Wendy Knerr presented a Pleasure Project workshop to a Share-Net meeting in the Netherlands. Share-Net is the Dutch network of development organizations and individual consultants working in the field of sexual & reproductive health and rights, and HIV. Among those present were members of the Universal Access to the Female Condom Joint Programme (UAFC), who published an article in their newsletter about the meeting.

Wendy Knerr proudly shows us a pink little bag. “this is what is sold in one of our partner countries, it is so cool, and so sexy!” We all wait curiously when she opens the bag. “ Look!” , she says while removing a transparent object with a white ring. Enthusiastically she explains that this object enhances sexual pleasure: the white ring should be inserted in the vagina of the woman; she can do it herself, or even better: ask her partner to do it. The man enjoys the top, the woman the outer ring. “This is such a sexy tool to prevent the woman from pregnancy and STIs! It is called… a female condom.”

Thanks for the great write-up!

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