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A new study shows that combining condom education and sexual pleasure is more effective in reducing STIs.
“If you ask most people if the sex education classes they have had have really prepared them for life as a couple and especially for intimate life, they will answer you no”. This is what Anne Philpott, a public health specialist at the WHO, thinks, at the head of a project carried out under the aegis of the world organization since 2004, called “The pleasure Project” (the pleasure project, Editor’s note). A program born, as she tells it, “many frustrating HIV meetings where no one was talking about people’s real motivation for sex: pleasure”.
Associate condom use with pleasure
For Anne Philpott, sex can be done safely for health while having fun. It is possible to put on a condom and feel pleasure, but the message of the courses and prevention campaigns do not put enough emphasis on that. In order to show that talking about pleasure can have an impact on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, the group of women in charge of the “Pleasure Project” conducted a meta analysis by reviewing several different prevention programs on sexual health and studied their impact on the promotion or not of condom use.
In the results published in the medical journal Plos One, the authors report that the 33 programs that most favored the use of condoms included the notion of pleasure in sex in their message. resulting in a decrease in STIs and especially HIV. For the specialists, it is important to associate the condom with pleasure as much as with prevention while reassuring the public about the sensations and the pleasure felt even with protection.
“We hope with this study, to motivate health authorities and those responsible for prevention programs to promote pleasure in sex associated with condoms, as well as consensual sex for better preventive results.”