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If you don’t know what “receptive cavity” and “insertive probe” are, you are not alone.

Anne Philpott, a public health specialist, found herself lost when she first heard those words at an AIDS Conference some years back.

“I had to think for a moment about what the speaker meant and then it hit me — she was talking about  the penis and the vagina!”

Having worked in the public health care sector for about 20 years, Anne says that was a eureka moment when she realized that,  “We [public health practitioners] have become so clinical about sex that we have completely forgotten about the reason why people have sex in the first place: for pleasure. “

This inspired Anne to put up The Pleasure Project, which is dedicated to promoting safe pleasurable sex as THE hot button to get people to practice safe sex. An ahem, hard job, but well, someone’s gotta do it.

“If you think about it, almost everything is sold or marketed, even subliminally. through sex. Coffee, your dream vacation, ice cream …why can’t be sex be marketed through sex?”, Anne asks.

One of the team’s projects is The Global Mapping of Pleasure, a directory of organizations, media, programmes and people  who eroticize safer sex. It is the first document of its kind and has been downloaded more than 20,000! The Pleasure Project also has also served as consultants on the set of porn movies to supervise condom use among the actors and putting in safer sex scenes.

It certainly isn’t my first time to work with the Pleasure Project. I was honored to be featured as their first guest blogger when they launched The Pleasure Project blog in 2009. Earlier this year, Anne graciously agreed to be featured in Playboy Philippines. : )  She boasts about this feat to all her readers with her post, “Check out my full page feature in Playboy”.

Sex and Sensibilities is honored to have Anne and her pleasure-seeking team as our guest bloggers for this month so we can all get a quick hit of what’s going on at the AIDS 2010 Conference in Vienna and how to make sex not only safe, but also pleasurable.

Let’s give Anne a SASsy welcome!