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Female Health Company
Fun sex with female condoms
Contact Robbie Nelson, Director of
Programmes and Sales
Female Health Company
Sovereign Park, Unit One
Coronation Road, Park Royal
London, UK
NW10 7QP
Tel +44 20 8965 2813
Fax +44 20 8453 0324
Email rnelson@femalehealthcompany.com
Web www.www.femalehealth.com
The NGOs we work with, which have had pleasure
trainings from The Pleasure Project, are not only making
it easier for people to talk about condoms, but they are
showing people how sex can be fun with condoms.”
Robbie Nelson, Director of Programmes and Sales, Female Health Company, UK
The Female Health Company (FHC) manufactures,
markets and sells the female condom, the first and
only female-initiated barrier method that is safe
and effective if used correctly and consistently and
provides dual protection against the transmission of
STIs, including HIV, and unintended pregnancy. The
female condom is currently sold or available through
various channels in 108 countries. Currently, there
are public sector female condom programmes in
various stages in more than 90 countries.
“The innovative approach of eroticizing the female
condom is already having an impact,” said Robbie
Nelson, FHC’s Director of Programmes and Sales.
“The NGOs we work with, which have had pleasure
trainings from The Pleasure Project, are not only
making it easier for people to talk about condoms,
but they are showing people how sex can be fun
with condoms.”
According to Robbie Nelson, FHC’s Director of
Programmes and Sales, FHC seeks unique and valid
ways to get men and women to talk about safe
sex, and pleasure-focused work is helping to create
comprehensive approaches that elicit surprise, raise
awareness, and generate discussion around barrier
protective methods. “This is a great way to normalize
and de-stigmatize the female condom.”
FHC has provided key support to organizations
advocating for a more sex-positive, pleasurefocused
approach to the female condom. This
has included supporting counsellors from Positively
Women (www.positivelywomen.org.uk) to receive
pleasure-focused training for the promotion of
female condoms among HIV-positive African
women in London, UK; funding for ‘Sexy tips for
female condoms’ communications materials,
which have been distributed at conferences and
trainings worldwide, and appeared in Positively
Women magazine; support for The Pleasure Project
to promote the female condom as a sex toy at
conferences and other events; and pleasure
promotion of the female condom at the National
African HIV Conference in London in 2008.
The Female Condom, image courtesy of the Female
Health Company website (www.femalehealth.com)
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