Pleasure is a key motivator for sex globally, while unsafe sex is the largest risk factor for
young women's mortality and the second for young men. However, framing of sex education …

This article offers an empirically grounded contribution to scholarship exploring the ways in
which pleasure is 'put to work'in sex and sexuality education. Such research has cautioned …

Most sexual health education programmes use fear and risk of disease to try to motivate
people to practise safer sex. This gives the impression that safer sex and pleasurable sex …

The right to sexual pleasure has been central to the politics of sexuality among sexually
marginalised groups for over half a century. More recently, this discourse of politicised …

This article provides technical guidance on the content, meaning, and application of the
World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) Declaration on Sexual Pleasure to various …

The mapping exercise documented a rich diversity of initiatives in a variety of contexts, and
showed how they had been able to successfully promote pleasure as a sexual health …

The lack of inclusion of sexual pleasure in comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) could
be detrimental to sexual development, misses opportunities for inclusive education, and may …

This chapter invites readers to think about practical ways of including sexual pleasure in
programmes of sexuality education with young people in schools and other youth settings …

This paper considers the common criteria by which school‐based sex and relationship
programmes are evaluated, and argues that the domination of public health outcomes …

Objectives: Despite billions of dollars in funding spent each year on sexual and reproductive
health and rights (SRHR) and HIV programming, sexual pleasure is insufficiently addressed …