SEXUAL HEALTH
INTERACTIVE DESIGN


Dec 2024
D&AD New Blood Awards Brief




D&AD Brief

Develop an innovative service, product or campaign that solves your chosen barrier to sexual freedom.

Your response must consider how breaking down barriers will give your audience more confidence to find their true sexual self, free from the current pressures they might experience.

What you make is completely up to you, as long as it feels authentic to the Durex brand.







Problem

How can Durex support audiences who are having difficulty experiencing or enjoying penetrative sex?
Insight

Sex isn’t supposed to hurt. Yet 1 in 10 people with a vulva in the UK experience vaginismus, a condition where the vaginal muscles involuntarily tighten during insertion, causing extreme discomfort during sex. However, contrary to popular belief, there are numerous ways to feel sexual pleasure without penetration.
Solution

Introducing Durex Pleasure Mapping, an interactive journey into self-discovery for individuals who have difficulty experiencing or enjoying penetrative sex. The map encourages users to discover pleasure zones around their body, opening up sexual pleasure to all genders, abilities, and sexualities, outside the bounds of penetrative sex.





The act of opening the map reflects the ability for Pleasure Mapping to open up sexual pleasure for individuals who might feel closed up due to vaginismus.






One by one, stroke each of your pleasure zones highlighted on the map. Use the stickers to indicate which of the zones you prefer.If a pleasure zone feels good, mark the map with a dark sticker. If it doesn't, mark it with a light sticker.

You can use the pleasure-o-meter, located on the map, for reference.






Flip the map over to see what other tools you can use to stimulate the zones such as you lips, fingers, feathers and dildos!







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