Pleasure and Empowerment: Connections and disconnections

Jolly, Susie

doi:10.1057/dev.2010.31

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“…This division results in more articles being assigned to pleasure than sex education. This is a natural result of the large variety of topics covering the full scope of sexual experience under pleasure, and also of the fixed nature of sex education articles 2 Love Matters web analytics confirm that 90% of the online audience is between the age of 18 and 30. 3 https://lovemattersafrica.com/making-love/ways-to-make-love/oral-sextop-five-facts 4 We selected these four websites given that they are the longest running Love Matters platforms and fully operational for the entirety of 2018.…”

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Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

Clief¹,

Anemaat²

2020

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BackgroundThere are few documented examples of online sex education platforms that make an impact on young people's sexual health and wellbeing, yet research shows that new media has enormous potential to be harnessed in this way. The same is true for a pleasure-positive approach to sex education curricula and programmes. This research provides empirical evidence from the Love Matters' websites in Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and India to highlight the prevalence and importance of talking about pleasure-related topics with young people. Methodology Love Matters is an online sex education platform targeting seven countries and attracting 30 million website visits in 2018. We analysed data through Google Analytics to explore the difference between sex education-focused content and pleasure-focused content and how young people engage with different types of sexual health information on the Love Matters platforms. ResultsPleasure-focused content is 1.5 times more popular than sex education-focused content across all platforms. However, education-focused content attracts more organic traffic, suggesting young people purposefully search for sexual health information online. Users generally spend longer on the site engaging with sex education-focused content than pleasure-focused content. ConclusionThis research provides empirical evidence from five countries in the Global South to support the notion that young people are actively looking for sexual health information that covers the full scope of sexual experience and pleasure, including -but not limited to -the reduction of health risks. This paper furthers the efforts to adopt a pleasure-positive approach to both online and offline sex education interventions.

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Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

Clief¹,

Anemaat²

2020

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“…It is important to address key topics like negotiation and communication, as well as diversity of bodies, genders and sexual orientations when you are integrating pleasure into the conversation (Abel & Fitzgerlad, 2006;Beasley, 2008;Fine, 1988;Gruskin et al, 2019;Tepper, 2000). To effectively speak with young people, you need to make sure that the information is reflective of the population you are speaking to (Abel & Fitzgerlad, 2006;Allen, 2001;Allen, 2005;Giami et al, 2006).…”

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Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

Clief¹,

Anemaat²

2019

Gates Open Res

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Background There are few documented examples of online sex education platforms that make an impact on young people’s sexual health and wellbeing, yet research shows that new media has enormous potential to be harnessed in this way. The same is true for a pleasure-positive approach to sex education curricula and programmes. This research provides empirical evidence from the Love Matters' websites in Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, and India to highlight the prevalence and importance of talking about pleasure-related topics with young people. Methodology Love Matters is an online sex education platform targeting seven countries and attracting 30 million website visits in 2018. We analysed data through Google Analytics to explore the difference between sex education-focused content and pleasure-focused content and how young people engage with different types of sexual health information on the Love Matters platforms. Results Pleasure-focused content is 1.5 times more popular than sex education-focused content across all platforms. However, education-focused content attracts more organic traffic, suggesting young people purposefully search for sexual health information online. Users generally spend longer on the site engaging with sex education-focused content than pleasure-focused content. Conclusion This research provides empirical evidence from five countries in the Global South to support the notion that young people are actively looking for sexual health information that covers the full scope of sexual experience and pleasure, including – but not limited to – the reduction of health risks. This paper furthers the efforts to adopt a pleasure-positive approach to both online and offline sex education interventions.

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“…Once they find employment, they face discrimination and exclusion from benefits and entitlements because of their effeminacy (Chettiar, 2015;Bondyopadhyay & Khan, 2004) and sometimes they are forced to leave and go back to streets to sell their body or beg for a living (Tiwari, 2016). The informal transgender workers are a bivalent collectively in the sense that they are not only exploited economically, but they are also culturally vulnerable because of their transgender identity (Jolly, 2010;Fraser, 1996). Only a few studies compared the other gender population with their counterpart of male and female population; this paper attempts to make a comparison between different gender in the light of literacy and workforce participation and also focused on the specific sector they are working for.…”

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‘Other’ gender in India: An Analysis of 2011 Census Data

Mandal¹,

Debnath²,

Sil³

2020

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In spite of a lot of human rights protection given to the ‘other-gender’ population worldwide, they still have been a deserted community who faces a significant occupational challenge around the world. In India, the other-gender community encompasses persons with a variety of gender identities, forming a culturally unique gender group. Although they have always remained an integral part of the society from the very ancient time, unfortunately, their existence is grappling with abject poverty, illiteracy, hatred, and mockery. Such stigmatisation and segregation from society have left them to compromise with the employment opportunities available. It is important to identify the gap between the other-gender population and the general population in the field of literacy and workforce participation. This paper uses the data on other-gender published by the Census of India for the first time. According to the Indian Census 2011, there is around 4.9 lakh other-gender population in the country. The data reveal that other-gender have lower levels of literacy and labour force participation compared with the general population. Our attempt is here to conceptualise the findings along with some discussion on the data limitations.

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Pleasure and Empowerment: Connections and disconnections

Cited by 7 publications

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Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

Good sex matters: Pleasure as a driver of online sex education for young people

‘Other’ gender in India: An Analysis of 2011 Census Data

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