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THE PLEASURE REPORT, created by writer, journalist, and filmmaker Sue Jaye Johnson, is a publication and community dedicated to investigating our relationship to pleasure. We are defining pleasure in an infinitely broad sense. We interrogate our pleasure in grief, in rage, in pain, in culture, in politics, and in our longing for a better world. Each month we have a theme.

We can experience pleasure passively, or, we can MAKE our pleasure. 

Together, we will explore the tenants of pleasure: attention, awareness, sensation, and acceptance. You will learn tools, be exposed to new ways of thinking, and being in your body, in this world. We are an engaged community of pleasure researchers. I invite you to join us.

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About Jaye, Founder

Working across mediums, from radio, film, print, and interactive media, Sue “Jaye” Johnson has investigated the US criminal justice system, women in sports, the legacy of apartheid, and girls in South Africa. As a TED Resident, she is examining our current relationship with pleasure and sex through intimate interviews with people from all walks of life asking what they believe about sex and why. Her TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed more than 3 million times and translated into 27 languages.

Jaye is a two-time Peabody-winner and recipient of a Creative Capital award for her pioneering interactive documentary about US prisons. Her first feature film, T-Rex (PBS, Netflix) followed 17-year-old boxer, Claressa Shields, from Flint, Michigan to the gold medal at the London Olympics. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, NPR, WNY and published in the New York Times and The Washington Post

She studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and Interactive Telecommunications at New York University. She lives in New York City with her husband, a radio producer and frequent collaborator, Joe Richman and their two daughters.


About India, Editor

I was born in the Year of the Ox and raised in the city that never sleeps. After attending film school for one year, I changed course and graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from Kenyon College in 2020. Working with people who are committed to fostering a more expansive, body-centered, and pleasure-grounded paradigm of daily life has been wholly inspiring. I am interested in the dime store pleasures of the every day [hot shower; dance break; the scent of fall air], the sparkly, dazzling pleasures you remember for years to come [artistic inspiration; the sudden, irrefutable presence of the divine; limerence], and the most luminous, life-affirming pleasure of all [love; love]. I am interested in heterodoxy, New York City history, and why and how the meanings of things change. I am passionate about context. I love to cook. I love to bike. I love my friends.About Liv (she/her), Contributing Editor

I am a young, sex and pleasure enthusiast, looking to create a more fun and enjoyable life for myself and those around me. I am committed to pleasure as a human right and instilling that in the youngest members of our society. As a preschool teacher, babysitter, and woman in general, I have worked for years with young children and see them as the most important and most ignored members of society. I want to see pleasure in our classrooms and school hallways. That is where it belongs.

Pleasure is not universal and does not exist in a vacuum. I acknowledge the breadth of pleasure, or the lack of it, that I cannot know as a white, cis-gendered, able-bodied, and bisexual woman. We are here to learn about our pleasure and the pleasure of others and how we can create a world rooted in that.

I am a lover of the French language and its history, family, and above all else, popcorn.


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