@thepleasureproject.bsky.social
Holiday closing 💛 This year, pleasure grew beyond us. 70+ CoP members worldwide, 1,800+ fellows, policy tables, practice change, research, movement. Stay close to your community and find the value in sharing with others. Pleasure grows with you!
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Holiday closing 💛 This year, pleasure grew beyond us. 70+ CoP members worldwide, 1,800+ fellows, policy tables, practice change, research, movement. Stay close to your community and find the value in sharing with others. Pleasure grows with you!
Pleasure saves lives. This #WorldAIDSDay, as funding cuts disrupt HIV services, we choose transformation. Pleasure-based approaches boost safer sex, confidence, and community power and...they are cost effective too! Donors, practitioners, pleasure makers - step up with us.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Pleasure saves lives. This #WorldAIDSDay, as funding cuts disrupt HIV services, we choose transformation. Pleasure-based approaches boost safer sex, confidence, and community power and...they are cost effective too! Donors, practitioners, pleasure makers - step up with us.
On 25 November we remember: ending violence against women means changing the ground it grows from 🌱
Pleasure opens that space - where gender equity can root, where autonomy strengthens, where violence loses power.
We honor all who cultivate this transformative soil.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
Pleasure opens that space - where gender equity can root, where autonomy strengthens, where violence loses power.
We honor all who cultivate this transformative soil.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On 25 November we remember: ending violence against women means changing the ground it grows from 🌱
Pleasure opens that space - where gender equity can root, where autonomy strengthens, where violence loses power.
We honor all who cultivate this transformative soil.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
Pleasure opens that space - where gender equity can root, where autonomy strengthens, where violence loses power.
We honor all who cultivate this transformative soil.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
Reposted
Sexuality isn't just about safety – it's also about joy, connection and consent. All young people deserve honest, respectful conversations about their bodies and relationships. #SRHR #PleasureMatters
https://plan-international.org/publications/embracing-pleasure/
https://plan-international.org/publications/embracing-pleasure/
Embracing Pleasure - Plan International
Learn how the Embracing Pleasure project applied a pleasure-inclusive approach within SRHR programmes for young people, with recommendations.
plan-international.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sexuality isn't just about safety – it's also about joy, connection and consent. All young people deserve honest, respectful conversations about their bodies and relationships. #SRHR #PleasureMatters
https://plan-international.org/publications/embracing-pleasure/
https://plan-international.org/publications/embracing-pleasure/
Tomorrow we talk pleasure.
🗓️ 6 Nov | Room B
If “no side effects” is the bar for men,
why isn’t sexual satisfaction the bar for everyone?
#ICFP2025 #PleasurePositiveContraception
🗓️ 6 Nov | Room B
If “no side effects” is the bar for men,
why isn’t sexual satisfaction the bar for everyone?
#ICFP2025 #PleasurePositiveContraception
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Tomorrow we talk pleasure.
🗓️ 6 Nov | Room B
If “no side effects” is the bar for men,
why isn’t sexual satisfaction the bar for everyone?
#ICFP2025 #PleasurePositiveContraception
🗓️ 6 Nov | Room B
If “no side effects” is the bar for men,
why isn’t sexual satisfaction the bar for everyone?
#ICFP2025 #PleasurePositiveContraception
Our Community of Practice is a radical #PleasureSpace where we welcome organizations, collectives, and initiatives that are commited to furthering pleasure based sexual health.
A warm welcome to
🌷Promsex
🌷SESH Global
🌷Sex for Everybody
A warm welcome to
🌷Promsex
🌷SESH Global
🌷Sex for Everybody
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Our Community of Practice is a radical #PleasureSpace where we welcome organizations, collectives, and initiatives that are commited to furthering pleasure based sexual health.
A warm welcome to
🌷Promsex
🌷SESH Global
🌷Sex for Everybody
A warm welcome to
🌷Promsex
🌷SESH Global
🌷Sex for Everybody
Desexualised contraception = bad science.
Coming soon to Bogotá. 👀
#ICFP2025 #PleasureIsTheMissingData
Coming soon to Bogotá. 👀
#ICFP2025 #PleasureIsTheMissingData
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Desexualised contraception = bad science.
Coming soon to Bogotá. 👀
#ICFP2025 #PleasureIsTheMissingData
Coming soon to Bogotá. 👀
#ICFP2025 #PleasureIsTheMissingData
Pleasure is political.
We’re at #ICFP2025 Bogotá to talk about what family planning forgets: desire.
Find us DKT / @ippf.bsky.social / Plan International booths.
And… keep your eyes open 👀 — pleasure might sneak up on you.
#PleasureIsTheMissingData #FPforALL
We’re at #ICFP2025 Bogotá to talk about what family planning forgets: desire.
Find us DKT / @ippf.bsky.social / Plan International booths.
And… keep your eyes open 👀 — pleasure might sneak up on you.
#PleasureIsTheMissingData #FPforALL
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Pleasure is political.
We’re at #ICFP2025 Bogotá to talk about what family planning forgets: desire.
Find us DKT / @ippf.bsky.social / Plan International booths.
And… keep your eyes open 👀 — pleasure might sneak up on you.
#PleasureIsTheMissingData #FPforALL
We’re at #ICFP2025 Bogotá to talk about what family planning forgets: desire.
Find us DKT / @ippf.bsky.social / Plan International booths.
And… keep your eyes open 👀 — pleasure might sneak up on you.
#PleasureIsTheMissingData #FPforALL
Velvet is now streaming.
A story about pleasure, identity, and connection — created by and for the ace community.
We hope you fall in love with this series, just like we did.
🎧 Start listening: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy #AceLove #QueerAudio #LGBTQIAStories
A story about pleasure, identity, and connection — created by and for the ace community.
We hope you fall in love with this series, just like we did.
🎧 Start listening: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy #AceLove #QueerAudio #LGBTQIAStories
velvetpodcast - Listen on Spotify - Linktree
View velvetpodcast’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Velvet is now streaming.
A story about pleasure, identity, and connection — created by and for the ace community.
We hope you fall in love with this series, just like we did.
🎧 Start listening: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy #AceLove #QueerAudio #LGBTQIAStories
A story about pleasure, identity, and connection — created by and for the ace community.
We hope you fall in love with this series, just like we did.
🎧 Start listening: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy #AceLove #QueerAudio #LGBTQIAStories
Special thanks to Velvet's script advisors @shibaristudy and Aubri Lancaster for their thoughtful guidance and insight throughout the making of Velvet.
Your care helped shape this story with nuance, accuracy, and tenderness.
💜 We’re so grateful.
Your care helped shape this story with nuance, accuracy, and tenderness.
💜 We’re so grateful.
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Special thanks to Velvet's script advisors @shibaristudy and Aubri Lancaster for their thoughtful guidance and insight throughout the making of Velvet.
Your care helped shape this story with nuance, accuracy, and tenderness.
💜 We’re so grateful.
Your care helped shape this story with nuance, accuracy, and tenderness.
💜 We’re so grateful.
We’re so grateful to our partners Taimi – a fully inclusive LGBTQ+ dating app. for co-creating this experience with us.
Check out Velvet’s Linktree for ace-centered resources — including wiki blogs, and special asexuality addendum to The Pleasure Principles!
🔗 Explore:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
Check out Velvet’s Linktree for ace-centered resources — including wiki blogs, and special asexuality addendum to The Pleasure Principles!
🔗 Explore:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We’re so grateful to our partners Taimi – a fully inclusive LGBTQ+ dating app. for co-creating this experience with us.
Check out Velvet’s Linktree for ace-centered resources — including wiki blogs, and special asexuality addendum to The Pleasure Principles!
🔗 Explore:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
Check out Velvet’s Linktree for ace-centered resources — including wiki blogs, and special asexuality addendum to The Pleasure Principles!
🔗 Explore:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
In Ep. 4 Xya attends her first ace meetup & for the first time she feels seen.
She meets Amani there, a new crush who reminds her that romantic connection is possible.
Finding like-minded people can be life-changing. Sometimes, community is where everything begins.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
She meets Amani there, a new crush who reminds her that romantic connection is possible.
Finding like-minded people can be life-changing. Sometimes, community is where everything begins.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In Ep. 4 Xya attends her first ace meetup & for the first time she feels seen.
She meets Amani there, a new crush who reminds her that romantic connection is possible.
Finding like-minded people can be life-changing. Sometimes, community is where everything begins.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
She meets Amani there, a new crush who reminds her that romantic connection is possible.
Finding like-minded people can be life-changing. Sometimes, community is where everything begins.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
In Episode 6, Xya takes a shibari class.
It’s soft. It’s vulnerable. It’s a powerful reminder that sensual attraction and intimacy can exist outside of sex.
For many aces, touch isn’t about arousal- it’s about presence, trust, and connection.
🎧 Listen:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
It’s soft. It’s vulnerable. It’s a powerful reminder that sensual attraction and intimacy can exist outside of sex.
For many aces, touch isn’t about arousal- it’s about presence, trust, and connection.
🎧 Listen:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In Episode 6, Xya takes a shibari class.
It’s soft. It’s vulnerable. It’s a powerful reminder that sensual attraction and intimacy can exist outside of sex.
For many aces, touch isn’t about arousal- it’s about presence, trust, and connection.
🎧 Listen:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
It’s soft. It’s vulnerable. It’s a powerful reminder that sensual attraction and intimacy can exist outside of sex.
For many aces, touch isn’t about arousal- it’s about presence, trust, and connection.
🎧 Listen:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
Back at the Berlin [P🌶️rn] Film Festival! 🌍
This year The Pleasure Project joins two panels at the Adult Industry Forum, where we’ll dig into how pleasure + literacy = better online worlds.
If you’re in Berlin, come say hi! 🫰 https://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/en/film-2025/adult-industry-forum/
This year The Pleasure Project joins two panels at the Adult Industry Forum, where we’ll dig into how pleasure + literacy = better online worlds.
If you’re in Berlin, come say hi! 🫰 https://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/en/film-2025/adult-industry-forum/
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Back at the Berlin [P🌶️rn] Film Festival! 🌍
This year The Pleasure Project joins two panels at the Adult Industry Forum, where we’ll dig into how pleasure + literacy = better online worlds.
If you’re in Berlin, come say hi! 🫰 https://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/en/film-2025/adult-industry-forum/
This year The Pleasure Project joins two panels at the Adult Industry Forum, where we’ll dig into how pleasure + literacy = better online worlds.
If you’re in Berlin, come say hi! 🫰 https://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/en/film-2025/adult-industry-forum/
Therapy can be a lifeline when you're unpacking your identity.
In Ep. 2/3, Dr. Mitchell reassures Xya that nothing is wrong with her and her closest friends respond with confusion and dismissal.
Coming out isn't always easy.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
In Ep. 2/3, Dr. Mitchell reassures Xya that nothing is wrong with her and her closest friends respond with confusion and dismissal.
Coming out isn't always easy.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Therapy can be a lifeline when you're unpacking your identity.
In Ep. 2/3, Dr. Mitchell reassures Xya that nothing is wrong with her and her closest friends respond with confusion and dismissal.
Coming out isn't always easy.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
In Ep. 2/3, Dr. Mitchell reassures Xya that nothing is wrong with her and her closest friends respond with confusion and dismissal.
Coming out isn't always easy.
🎧 Listen: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
Xya thought she was in love.
But when her boyfriend finds out she’s not sexually attracted to him, he ends the relationship.
Ep. 1 of Velvet opens with heartbreak and continues with a journey of self-discovery, identity, and reimagining what intimacy looks like.
🔗 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
But when her boyfriend finds out she’s not sexually attracted to him, he ends the relationship.
Ep. 1 of Velvet opens with heartbreak and continues with a journey of self-discovery, identity, and reimagining what intimacy looks like.
🔗 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Xya thought she was in love.
But when her boyfriend finds out she’s not sexually attracted to him, he ends the relationship.
Ep. 1 of Velvet opens with heartbreak and continues with a journey of self-discovery, identity, and reimagining what intimacy looks like.
🔗 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
But when her boyfriend finds out she’s not sexually attracted to him, he ends the relationship.
Ep. 1 of Velvet opens with heartbreak and continues with a journey of self-discovery, identity, and reimagining what intimacy looks like.
🔗 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
💜 Happy Asexual Awareness Week 💜
Proud to partner with @taimiapp.bsky.social & writer/director Zanah Thirus on Velvet, a 7 episode fiction podcast that explores romance, intimacy, and connection through an asexual lens.
🎧 Stream now:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy
Proud to partner with @taimiapp.bsky.social & writer/director Zanah Thirus on Velvet, a 7 episode fiction podcast that explores romance, intimacy, and connection through an asexual lens.
🎧 Stream now:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
💜 Happy Asexual Awareness Week 💜
Proud to partner with @taimiapp.bsky.social & writer/director Zanah Thirus on Velvet, a 7 episode fiction podcast that explores romance, intimacy, and connection through an asexual lens.
🎧 Stream now:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy
Proud to partner with @taimiapp.bsky.social & writer/director Zanah Thirus on Velvet, a 7 episode fiction podcast that explores romance, intimacy, and connection through an asexual lens.
🎧 Stream now:https://bit.ly/4nrNQOp
#VelvetPodcast #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceJoy
Reposted
"✨ This #WorldContraceptionDay, we spotlight a missing piece: sex life.
A review of 64 studies shows concerns like reduced desire, discomfort, or partner experience are a common reason people stop contraception—yet rarely studied.
🔗 bit.ly/46D4Udv
@thepleasureproject.bsky.social
A review of 64 studies shows concerns like reduced desire, discomfort, or partner experience are a common reason people stop contraception—yet rarely studied.
🔗 bit.ly/46D4Udv
@thepleasureproject.bsky.social
New study reveals sex life impacts are major reasons for contraceptive discontinuation
A new study from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP), and The Pleasure Project finds that approximately 1 in 20 people who discontinu...
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"✨ This #WorldContraceptionDay, we spotlight a missing piece: sex life.
A review of 64 studies shows concerns like reduced desire, discomfort, or partner experience are a common reason people stop contraception—yet rarely studied.
🔗 bit.ly/46D4Udv
@thepleasureproject.bsky.social
A review of 64 studies shows concerns like reduced desire, discomfort, or partner experience are a common reason people stop contraception—yet rarely studied.
🔗 bit.ly/46D4Udv
@thepleasureproject.bsky.social
Over 1800 applications (!!) for the Pleasure Fellowship. This marks the biggest year yet in our 3-iterations journey.
We're a small, part-time team, and we’ll be reviewing each application with deep care. Please give us a few months, we promise to be in touch with everyone 💜
We're a small, part-time team, and we’ll be reviewing each application with deep care. Please give us a few months, we promise to be in touch with everyone 💜
July 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Over 1800 applications (!!) for the Pleasure Fellowship. This marks the biggest year yet in our 3-iterations journey.
We're a small, part-time team, and we’ll be reviewing each application with deep care. Please give us a few months, we promise to be in touch with everyone 💜
We're a small, part-time team, and we’ll be reviewing each application with deep care. Please give us a few months, we promise to be in touch with everyone 💜
🔥 The Pleasure Fellowship is BACK, baby 🔥
We're fired up and ready to ride the next #pleasurewave — are you coming?
📅 Applications open June 16
🚀 Get your ideas hot and ready.
Follow us, spread the word, and stay tuned — we’re just getting started.
#PleasureFellowship2025 #JoinThePleasureWave #
We're fired up and ready to ride the next #pleasurewave — are you coming?
📅 Applications open June 16
🚀 Get your ideas hot and ready.
Follow us, spread the word, and stay tuned — we’re just getting started.
#PleasureFellowship2025 #JoinThePleasureWave #
June 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🔥 The Pleasure Fellowship is BACK, baby 🔥
We're fired up and ready to ride the next #pleasurewave — are you coming?
📅 Applications open June 16
🚀 Get your ideas hot and ready.
Follow us, spread the word, and stay tuned — we’re just getting started.
#PleasureFellowship2025 #JoinThePleasureWave #
We're fired up and ready to ride the next #pleasurewave — are you coming?
📅 Applications open June 16
🚀 Get your ideas hot and ready.
Follow us, spread the word, and stay tuned — we’re just getting started.
#PleasureFellowship2025 #JoinThePleasureWave #
Already the 7th meeting of our Cop! Pleasure is needed ❤️🔥
🚫 This is a closed-door event for our CoP members🚫 But don’t let that stop you! If your organization is ready to embrace the Pleasure Principles—send in your endorsement👉https://thepleasureproject.org/the-pleasure-principles/endorse/
🚫 This is a closed-door event for our CoP members🚫 But don’t let that stop you! If your organization is ready to embrace the Pleasure Principles—send in your endorsement👉https://thepleasureproject.org/the-pleasure-principles/endorse/
April 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Already the 7th meeting of our Cop! Pleasure is needed ❤️🔥
🚫 This is a closed-door event for our CoP members🚫 But don’t let that stop you! If your organization is ready to embrace the Pleasure Principles—send in your endorsement👉https://thepleasureproject.org/the-pleasure-principles/endorse/
🚫 This is a closed-door event for our CoP members🚫 But don’t let that stop you! If your organization is ready to embrace the Pleasure Principles—send in your endorsement👉https://thepleasureproject.org/the-pleasure-principles/endorse/
#TDOV a thread 🧵⬇️ (1/7)
The global political arena is completely inflamed by #transgender issues. But when talking about the experience of transness, the framework almost always is one of fear, danger and death. What happens when we open up the space for pleasure, joy and also, simply, ordinariness?
The global political arena is completely inflamed by #transgender issues. But when talking about the experience of transness, the framework almost always is one of fear, danger and death. What happens when we open up the space for pleasure, joy and also, simply, ordinariness?
March 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#TDOV a thread 🧵⬇️ (1/7)
The global political arena is completely inflamed by #transgender issues. But when talking about the experience of transness, the framework almost always is one of fear, danger and death. What happens when we open up the space for pleasure, joy and also, simply, ordinariness?
The global political arena is completely inflamed by #transgender issues. But when talking about the experience of transness, the framework almost always is one of fear, danger and death. What happens when we open up the space for pleasure, joy and also, simply, ordinariness?
On this #InternationalWomensDay we are united in resistance, not caving in to fear or immobility but celebrating our collective power and the radical joy we find in organizing.
March 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
On this #InternationalWomensDay we are united in resistance, not caving in to fear or immobility but celebrating our collective power and the radical joy we find in organizing.
In our commitment to advancing #SRHR we are leaving behind the constraints of X. Though we remain critical and vigilant of #BigTech (even of more decentralized networks such as Bluesky) our hope is to find spaces where our voice will soar somehow a little more freer 🐦💗☀️Welcome #Pleasure champions!
March 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM