# MakeLoveNotPorn: New Year, new milestone + The Economist endorsement | MakeLoveNotPorn

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- Published at: 2025-01-02 23:24:15 UTC
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## Author
Cindy Gallop

## Subject
MakeLoveNotPorn

## Content
Dearest investors - Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had relaxing holiday breaks.We’re thrilled that our campaign has passed the $400k mark! Our next milestone is to hit $500k as soon as we can - so please do spread the word. If each of you can persuade one friend/family member/colleague to invest the same amount you have, we’ll not only pass that milestone, we’ll double what we’ve raised to date 🙂We’re happy to report that your investment to date means we’re progressing well on designing and building MakeLoveNotPorn Academy.  Our full-on educator outreach program obviously encountered a bit of a hiatus over the holidays, but our team is now back and raring to go as we line up more and more of the brilliant educators/professionals/organizations/resources we’re bringing together to represent the best of the world’s sex education content on the Academy. As always, if you’ve come across anyone or anything you consider excellent on the sex education front, please do let us know as we'd love to reach out to them - you can message me cindy@makelovenotporn.com.We’re also happy that the current issue of The Economist carries an article that makes it clear how badly-needed MakeLoveNotPorn is globally, 'How Better Data Could Lead To Better Sex: What We Don't Know About Human Sexual Behaviour Is Scandalous'.The article is pay-walled, so I’m sharing some screenshots below. As you read them, bear in mind that MakeLoveNotPorn is the only venture working to solve what the Economist identifies as the 'three forces that hinder the spread of good information about sex':1. MakeLoveNotPorn is a shamechanger - I designed MLNP to take the shame, guilt and embarrassment out of sex, by socializing, normalizing and de-stigmatizing it. We're spearheading the Social Sex Revolution - the revolutionary part is not the sex, but the fact we're finally making it social.2. MakeLoveNotPorn provides 'good information to crowd out the bad' - MLNP is sex education through real world demonstration, and the Academy, which we plan to launch this spring if we hit our funding goal, will aggregate the best of the world's sex education content for 0-18 and beyond, making it easily accessible and searchable by age-appropriateness, cultural sensibility and personal comfort level, at a time when open healthy sex ed is being blocked, censored and de-platformed everywhere.3. I designed MakeLoveNotPorn to be the Kinsey of today - real time, real life, real world human sexual behavior, captured and aggregated in a way no one else is doing. I've battled to raise the kind of funding that is small beer compared to what gets lavished on male founders, but would enable us to revolutionize the massive data shortfall The Economist talks about. (I continue to work on the full fundraise beyond WeFunder, but am so grateful to all of you for furthering our goal here.)4. MakeLoveNotPorn solves every issue in this article - we answer the question the world has asked since the dawn of time, "What is everybody else REALLY doing in bed?" Per The Economist, 'With more accurate research that was more widely disseminated, people would have a better sense of what others get up to. That might make it easier to overcome taboos, which are often based on circular reasoning (you shouldn’t do xbecause it is “not normal”). “Knowing you’re not alone is really helpful,” says Ms Darkoa Sekyiamah. “If you know that lots of other couples have oral sex, [for example], that quite often will make people feel that it’s okay and it’s something that they might try.” A culture of transparency around what other people do might also help couples talk to each other about what they actually want.'5. MakeLoveNotPorn's mission is to help end rape culture globally - by celebrating great, consensual, communicative sex, eroticizing consent; role modelling good sexual values and behavior; making all of that aspirational, vs what you see in porn and popular culture. We have 12 years of proof of concept at a micro-level. With funding, we can scale that impact globally.I’d love to get to a person in the right position of power within the World Health Organization to talk WHO funding and support for MakeLoveNotPorn in this area - if anyone has any leads, do let me know! The Economist article is inspiring in bringing to public attention the huge need and global market opportunity that we have - it’s a great start to what we hope will be a great year for realizing our goals with your help ❤️With thanks and all best wishes for the new year - Cindy and the MLNP team