Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 14, Issue 28 , Pages 23-31 , November 2006

Pleasure and Prevention: When Good Sex Is Safer Sex

  • Anne Philpott

      Affiliations

    • Chair of Trustees, The Pleasure Project, London, UK, and Health Advisor, Department for International Development, UK
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  • Wendy Knerr

      Affiliations

    • Communications Director, The Pleasure Project, London, UK
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  • Vicky Boydell

      Affiliations

    • PhD candidate, Anthropology, London School of Economics, London, UK

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  22. See also The Female Condom and Sexual Pleasure by the Pleasure Project.

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doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(06)28254-5

Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 14, Issue 28 , Pages 23-31 , November 2006