I personally think this campaign is a brilliant idea! It encourages people to carry condoms whilst clubbing. In Bristol, if you carry condoms, in selected venues they let you jump the queue. There are 35 businesses altogether in the local area backing the campaign.
This page talks about the idea of having warning signs on condom packaging, like on cigarette packets, and alcohol bottles. The warnings will include percentages and figures about the reliance of condoms. All our lives we have believed that condoms are contraception and as long as we use them we are safe from STI’S and HIV/AIDS and also have no risk of pregnancy. Wrong. Condoms are almost 100 % effective when it comes to pregnancy, but not quite.
Lady Gaga is now launching a campaign on practising safe sex, and she says sex without condoms is like Russian roulette! She is trying to help cut the number of HIV carriers in the world. Lady Gaga says she hopes her vulnerable fans will listen to her message, and talks about how important it is.
For those of you who don’t know there is a new condom being brought into the market in Switzerland. It is a condom especially made for 12-14 year olds. It has been made smaller than average condoms and is sold with the catchy slogan, “it fits when passion hits”. It is not so different in length, but in diameter. Average condoms have a diameter of 52 millimetres and the new “Hotshot” condom has a diameter of 47 millimetres. What do you think of the idea?
Condoms are twice as likely to split and prevent both partners from reaching orgasm if the condom does not fit correctly.
In the last three months it has been proven that 45 % of men aged between 18-67 use condoms that are not the right size. Not only does this increase the chance of the condom splitting it also includes other difficulties, it interferes with performance, double the chance of erection loss and being more likely to remove the condom before climax as it has become uncomfortably dry.