India
She/Her
2021 Cohort
Leeza Mangaldas is India's foremost pleasure positive content creator, author of The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-discovery (published by HarperCollins) , and founder of pleasure and intimacy products brand, Leezu’s. Her sex education videos on social media reach millions of people in India and around the world, daily. Leeza has won several awards for her work, and is a UN Women Ally. She’s proud to have been a recipient of The Pleasure Project Fellowship.
100 Stories of Pleasure 
Leeza Mangaldas is India's foremost pleasure positive content creator, author of The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-discovery (published by HarperCollins), and founder of pleasure and intimacy products brand, Leezu’s. Her sex education videos on social media reach millions of people in India and around the world, daily. Leeza has won several awards for her work, and is a UN Women Ally. Leeza was named one of GQ India’s Most Influential Young Indians in 2021. She’s proud to have been a recipient of The Pleasure Project Fellowship.
During the Pleasure Fellowship, Leeza worked along Rhiana and Ipsita on a project called ‘100 Stories of Pleasure’. Through their work, they compiled very diverse and sexy stories from all over the world around pleasure. Leeza remains engaged to The Pleasure Project through different activities. She has been a speaker for training sessions and has recently represented The Pleasure Project at the Women Deliver Conference 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda.
Recently, Leeza has released her book “The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-discovery" published by Harper Collins. She has also founded and launched a pleasure and intimacy product brand called Leezu’s. Leeza remains actively educating in her social media platforms and has recently participated at the Women Deliver Conference 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda, representing The Pleasure Project.
Highlights
100 Stories of Pleasure is from a desire to undo the silencing that stifles discussion on pleasure and bring about sex positive, joyful discussions on pleasure.
In most cultures and societies today, we are taught from a young age that to talk about sex and pleasure is uncomfortable, uncivilized, unladylike, unacceptable – the list goes on. When we do talk about sex, at school, at home, or in a health care setting, we often receive the message that sex is dangerous, that you will get an STI or fall pregnant... and you will die (quote Coach Car from Mean Girls)! Why are we never told how pleasurable sex can be! 100 Stories of Pleasure aims to collect and curate a digital anthology of pleasure positive stories from 100 pleasure enthusiasts around the world!
"I learned so much during my time at the Pleasure Fellowship. For someone like me, who was doing it from home and alone, it could be get lonely and isolating and seen as disruptive and taboo. So having the access - not only to resources - but to other fellows, connecting so regularly and talking about stuff that regular conversation to others could be difficult to relate. It felt so nice to have a support group, almost, and a bunch of people to learn from! My favorite part was getting to know these other people doing similar work in different parts of the world and hearing about the challenges but also their perspectives and solutions to things that come up"
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