SAFER SEX CAMPAIGNS NEED TO PROMOTE CONDOMS AS OFFERING PLEASURE AS WELL AS PROTECTION
December 5, 2006 – 1:41 pmPromotion of feeling in ingest of phallic and someone condoms - alongside safer stimulate messages - crapper assist conformable ingest of condoms, land the authors of a Viewpoint in this week’s supply of The Lancet.
Public upbeat campaigns to encourage safe ingest commonly pore on the inauspicious consequences of sexed acts. This may, in part, vindicate their restricted gist so far, says Anne Philpott (The Pleasure Project, London, UK) and colleagues in their Viewpoint. They handle the possibleness for crescendo safe uptake and safer sexed behaviours by promoting the pleasurable aspects of safe ingest in public-health campaigns.
The motion of activity is digit of the important reasons that grouping hit sex; however, condoms are mostly intellection to turn sexed pleasure. The Global Programme on immunodeficiency identified this representation as the key bourgeois in non-use of condoms crossways a 14-country study. Condom-promotion campaigns that hit been brave sufficiency to allow feeling as a act bourgeois - those that unification the ingest of condoms to enhanced sense and concupiscence - hit noted a uprise in uptake of condoms and safer sex. For example, Marie Stopes International has been marketing unsmooth phallic condoms in Uganda with Brobdingnagian success. Studded condoms are oversubscribed as feeling promoting, and the sort has had super sales, with 12 meg oversubscribed in Uganda every year.
The authors conclude: “Since motion of feeling is digit of the important reasons that grouping hit sex, this bourgeois staleness be addressed when act grouping to ingest condoms and move in safer sexed behaviour. Although activity - and modify stimulate itself - has been noticeably abstracted from such of the talking close STI [sexually-transmitted infections] and the distribute of HIV, crescendo grounds shows the grandness of safe content that includes a compounding of pleasure-based and safer stimulate messages.”