The pleasure principle

“Really useful, enjoyable, engaging.”
Course participant, Worcestershire County Council

Sex and relationships education (SRE) for young people can focus on facts and figures, what not to do and how to avoid infections and abuse.

Young people tell us they would like less factual information and want more on how to have positive relationships, how to pleasure their partner and how to get the most from an intimate relationship.

It’s time to put the pleasure back into sex and this one-day course features some exercises for safe, educational work with young people around pleasure. It also encourages participants to adopt a sex-positive approach when communicating with young people about risk and safer sex.

Aim

To explore how supporting young people to have positive and enjoyable sexual relationships can fit into conversations about risk, and to enable young people to feel more engaged with sexual health messages.

Learning outcomes

• Discuss the issues around promoting sex-positive SRE work.
• Gain information about the physiology of sexual pleasure.
• Explore personal and professional attitudes to sex-positive work.
• Consider sex-positive approaches to group work with young people.
• Communicate about safer sex with young people in a sex-positive manner.

Number of days

One

The FPA booklet Love Sex Life may also be of interest.