The 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific has just finished in Busan, Korea. On behalf of The Pleasure Project, our brave reporter Revati hunted out mentioned of good safe sex or any mention of pleasure in sex education at the conference.
Revati is an old time pleasure propagandist who has written sexy tips, run pleasure workshops at the Colombo AIDS Conference where she diplomatically pointed out that maybe a woman’s head could be part of a pleasure body mapping. So she is well equip to seek erotic safe sex in Busan.
Here is her second post.
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I just came out of a satellite session on Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV integration called “Is SRH/HIV Integration serving the needs of key populations?”
There were four presenters, and two discussants. the presenters covered service provision to men who have sex with men and trans gender groups, and one was on sex workers.
One presenter – Sunita Grote from the AIDS Alliance, spoke about the need to reach young people who are affected by AIDS. At the end of the presentation, two people were given time to speak and one of them was Milinda – from Youth LEAD. His posed a brave question asking about
“ Why the available services are not being youth friendly and that messages around pleasure are missing in the discourse around sex when talking to young people ?”
(three cheers for Milinda, The Pleasure Project).
The moderator of the session agreed and in his concluding remarks he said that one of the key issues from this session was the need to provide youth friendly sexual health services including HIV services that do not forgetting that people have sex for pleasure and that sex with only an association with disease needs to stop being the focus.
For the first time in any of the sessions I attended, I heard the words sex for pleasure being mentioned.
I shall keep on hunting…
