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Argentina plans to give out 82 million condoms in 2013
Argentina plans to give out 82 million condoms nationwide in 2013 in a campaign against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, the health ministry said Friday. The condoms will be handed out at health centers, schools, prisons, bars and nightclubs, as well as through a network of nearly 3,000 fixed spots…
Police arresting condom carriers increase risk of spreading HIV
Police in major cities in the United States are criminalising women who carry a stock of condoms, making sex workers and their clients less likely to use them and increasing their risk of contracting HIV, says Human Rights Watch. A new report compiles evidence from sex workers in four major…
Chat with Naomi Wolf is educational…..
I agreed to do a chat today at the Guardian about abortion rights with Naomi Wolf. I thought it would be a quick and dirty educate the folks kind of thing, but instead it got really heated. Instead, she wanted to get me embroiled in a weird discussion about how…
For a couple of years there, big time lady rappers really wanted you to use condoms
This week, in anticpation of the upcoming WAM Prom on Friday, I’ll be blogging some thoughts on music and culture by the way of our mash-up theme of hip-hop and disco. Those of us who lived through the early 90s can attest that it was a time when there was…
Condom use up amongst teenagers
I'm sure you've seen this story that's been passed around about the supposed "health" editor at xoJane who uses Plan B as her primary form of contraception. (Seriously, how rarely are you getting laid that this even seems like a remotely feasible plan of action?) There was much fail in…
Souvenir condoms rolled out for UK royal wedding
While Britain has a public holiday to celebrate Prince William’s wedding, one company is taking the party one step further with souvenir condoms that urge lovers to “lie back and think of England”. Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction is producing special celebration packs that bear the slogan: “Like a royal…
The Pope: You Decide
So, the Pope said that condoms not only don’t work against HIV, but that they actually make the problem worse, because they make people think about fucking, which isn’t something we could come up with on our own, but need NGO sex and health educators to put into our heads.…
More video: Do condoms work?
One of the ongoing struggles we’re having with the religious right is over their willingness to lie about the efficacy of condoms. The lie that condoms don’t work is everywhere—promoted by the Catholic Church, embedded in the public school abstinence-only programs, being promoted under the guise of HIV prevention with…
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