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As The Chronicle reported today, Galileo High School celebrated Valentine’s Day with a “Love Fest” that featured same-sex marriage ceremonies and safer-sex games. In one exercise, students puts on goggles “that made their vision slightly blurry, simulating a drunken state.” A teacher told students “to put a condom on a wooden penis. Most of the students left air in the condom tip, which could lead to breakage, and that prompted an instructional rebuke from (teacher Raina) Meyers.”

A proposal that would require adult film actors to use condoms has qualified for the June ballot after proponents gathered enough signatures to put the issue before Los Angeles voters. Proponents gathered more than 70,000 signatures, exceeding the 41,000 required to place the issue on the ballot, according to AIDS Heathcare Foundation spokesman Ged Kenslea. The signatures were certified last week by the LA City Clerk.

A Long Island man was stunned to find out that his 4-year-old twins weren’t an accidental pregnancy at all — his desperate girlfriend secretly stashed away his sperm and used it for an in-vitro procedure, he charges in a lawsuit. Elmont resident Joseph Pressil, 36, wasn’t planning on having children with Anetria Burnett, with whom he was in a relationship for six months in 2007, he said. So she took matters into her own hands, he told The Post, in order to remain in his Texas house and make a legal bid for half of his possessions. -snip- The real...

<p>Thomas Jefferson and his pals could never have envisioned this legal battle when they wrote the Bill of Rights: Does the First Amendment cover a street vendor's right to sell condoms in wrappers bearing the president's image?</p> <p>José Andujar, 43, was busted last Friday in Times Square for selling his "Obama" condoms -- his third arrest in a year for unlicensed peddling, cops said.</p>

The two Swedish women who have brought sex charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange boasted about their relationship with him days before going to cops. Based on information available on various websites quoting police and court papers, here's an account of what happened. The story goes back to August this year, when Assange was in Stockholm to speak at the invitation of Sweden's Social Democratic Party. The event organizer was 31-year-old Anna Ardin, who has been described as a feminist, leftist, social democrat and opponent of abortion. She has worked at the Uppsala University, handling equality issues for the students'...

Concering this report from the AP regarding remarks from Pope Benedict XVI on condom use, everyone is expecting clarifications. We can be pretty certain of that, but in the meantime, I’ll offer one.The key phrase that explains everything that will go right over the vast majority of people’s heads? �Re-develop the understanding�.From the AFP [emphasis mine]: Benedict offered the example of a male prostitute using a condom. “There may be justified individual cases, for example when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be … a first bit of responsibility, to re-develop the understanding that not everything is...

New York City Archbishop Anthony Dolan offers scathing criticism of The New York Times for its positive reviews of a play and art exhibit that he says are offensive to Catholics. The art exhibit, showing in Cambridge, Mass., includes a poster showing the late Cardinal John O'Connor next to a condom. The exhibit was created by AIDS advocacy group ACT UP. The play, "The Divine Sister," is a comedy about nuns that is playing in New York City.

In order to promote safe-sex, the University of California San Francisco and an unnamed Southern California non-profit have joined forces and funded grants for the installation of 16 condom dispenser for inmates in the San Bruno jail. While sex among inmates is illegal, the desire to promote a safe sex program (started in 1989) and “save lives” is more important to those involved, than the legality of the consummate issue at hand. “It may be controversial,” Sheriff Michael Hennessey told the The San Francisco Chronicle, “but I think the larger health education message is important.”

Friday August 13, 2010 Urban Oufitters Pulls Planned Parenthood Condoms PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One day after parents were asked to contact Urban Outfitters and object to its sale of Planned Parenthood condoms, the youth-oriented retailer has ceased its online sale of condoms.The product page explained that the web-exclusive condoms are "no longer available," a message the American Life League reports was confirmed by an Urban Outfitters representative.Condoms have a typical-use failure rate as high as 36 percent among teens, and Planned Parenthood’s condoms scored at the very bottom in a 2005 Consumer Reports trial of...

South African doctor invents female condoms with 'teeth' to fight rape Dr. Sonnet Ehlers shows a spiked female condom, whose hooks she says stick on a man during rape. (CNN) -- South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse. "She looked at me and said, 'If only had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day." Forty years later,...

I picked up Gerry's tux today, they grow up way too fast.

Foreign Office makes apology to Pope after officials' mock memo about 'Benedict' brand condoms By Jonathan Petre and Nick Pisa Last updated at 2:15 AM on 25th April 2010 The Government has been plunged into a major diplomatic storm after Foreign Office officials circulated an offensive memo mocking the Pope's forthcoming visit to Britain. In the document, staff who were asked to propose ideas for the 'ideal' visit suggested Benedict XVI could launch a new range of 'Benedict' condoms or back a Miss Developing World beauty contest. Sources in Rome said the document also proposed that the Pope might sing...

NEW YORK — An electric power button symbol inched past other entries to win New York's condom wrapper design contest, the city said Tuesday. The winning design shows the familiar "on" symbol found on computers and other electronic devices. It defeated nearly 600 other hopefuls before coming out on top of the five finalists, which included a top hat, a suggestive train tunnel and even a municipal manhole cover.

Exclusive: Shipments of Medical Aid to Haiti Delayed by Massive Condom Overload By John-Henry Westen and Kathleen GilbertPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, February 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The flow of medical supplies waiting to be distributed to tens of thousands of earthquake victims in Haiti was delayed for weeks by a massive supply of condoms dominating the space of the main storage facility there, an eyewitness with insider information has told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).The central pharmaceutical supply center, known as PROMESS (Program on Essential Medicine and Supplies), is home to the operations of the World Health Organization (WHO)/Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in the...

Tuesday August 4, 2009 "Safe Sex" with Condoms Bad for Mental Health, Psych Researcher Finds "Emotional immaturity" and depression more prevalent among condom-users By Hilary WhitePAISLEY, Scotland, August 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Research from Scotland finding that heterosexual sex without using condoms is more likely to make people happy than "safe sex" with condoms, has stirred controversy among "sexual health" campaigners. The lead researcher wrote of the survey respondents, "The more often they have sex without condoms, the better their mental health."In the study, titled, "Condom Use for Penile-Vaginal Intercourse is Associated with Immature Psychological Defense Mechanisms," Professor Stuart...

Monday May 25, 2009 Obama Selects Top NYC Condom Pusher to Head CDC By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Obama earlier this month appointed New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a strong proponent of contraceptive-based HIV prevention, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The appointment, which Obama announced May 15, does not require Senate confirmation.Frieden, who received degrees in Medicine and Public Health from Columbia University, in 2007 headed up a massive media campaign featuring NYC-brand condoms, tens of millions of which have since been handed out to...

Tuesday May 12, 2009 Obama Calls for Condom Funding to Replace Abstinence Education By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., May 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 Proposed Budget, the president recommends that Congress eliminate funding for abstinence education and instead pour funds into condoms and contraceptive-based sex education.The proposed budget calls for an additional $150 million for contraceptive-only education, which includes competitive grants, research, evaluation and authorization for $50 million in new mandatory condom grants to states, tribes and territories, according to an Abstinence Clearinghouse press release.The budget eliminates the $133 million set aside for CBAE (Community...

Girl allegedly finds condom in ‘Happy Meal’ Swiss cops investigate claim 7-year-old girl found condom in French fries The Associated Press updated 12:09 p.m. ET May 4, 2009 FRIBOURG, Switzerland - Swiss police said they are investigating a 7-year-old girl's discovery of a condom in her McDonald's Happy Meal. Fribourg state police said the mother called them after the girl discovered the condom among her French fries.

NEW YORK (AP) - Advocates of the female condom are promoting a less costly, more user-friendly version that they hope will vastly expand its role in the global fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. An early version of the female condom was introduced in 1993, and it remains the only available woman-initiated form of protection against both STDs and unintended pregnancy. Yet despite global promotion by the United Nations and other organizations, its usage is still minuscule, even as women bear an ever-growing share of the AIDS epidemic.

Protect the gene pool from Madoff and friends Jewssip took aim at Bernard Madoff in an off-color blog post about a condom campaign aimed at protecting the world from evil. Jewssip writes: Germany’s Doc Morris Pharmacies missed Bernie Madoff in their new “safe sex” condom campaign. Getting up to get the Jimmy protector doesn’t just help in the fight against STDs and HIV, but can capture the mad men like Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler or Mao Zedong before they can even conceive plans of destruction.

The terminally ill UCC denomination has decided that the solution to their membership in freefall is to hand out condoms in the sanctuary during church services. You may have wondered what the last C in UCC stands for, and whatever they may say, it isn’t Christ. But why hand them out in the sanctuary? Are they preparing their people for the next phase of the church sex campaigns? Stay tuned. These apostate temples of doom always have a something new in the wings, and in this case, it can’t be good.

VATICAN CITY – From the Gospel to Google, the church has been seeking ways to announce the word of Christ for 2,000 years. Pope Benedict XVI has gone on YouTube and his speeches appear in Chinese on the Vatican Web site, but judging from the uproar over a Holocaust-denying bishop and his pronouncement that condoms deepen the AIDS crisis, he's clearly struggling with his message. During his nearly four-year papacy, criticism has been pouring in from Muslims, Jews and members of his own flock, as the German pontiff seems to step into controversy at every turn. The attacks by European...

One comment on condoms leads to massive, unprecedented, vitriolic PONTIFF-bashing in the liberal press.

Students at a Chelsea middle school were alarmed by an embarrassing surprise when they mistakenly received condoms at a school health fair. Students at Clinton Middle School said they where shocked when several classmates found condoms Thursday in their goodie bags given out at a school health fair. "I heard like yelling in the halls, like saying that they got condoms in their goodie bags. It was like very weird for me I didn't understand," said seventh grade student Chloe Malave. The Ryan Community Health Center gave out the bags as part of an HIV/AIDS awareness program and apologized for...

A 22-month-old boy choked on a used condom in the Homewood Suites in Mount Laurel, N.J., according to a lawsuit filed by the little boy's family. The Wolfe family of Pittsburgh, Mass. was headed home after spending the holidays in Florida and they stayed overnight in the Burlington County hotel. The morning of their departure, the toddler apparently found a used condom in the room, left behind by previous travelers, according to the lawsuit. The child’s mother, Amy, heard her little boy chewing and choking on the condom and tried to get it out of his mouth, but he had...

Sometimes a moral lecture doesn't hit home on the person it's directed to. NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the comic within this thread. Thanks.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday. Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them. About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.

New York City is frequently referred to by its slogan, "the Big Apple." But if some in city government have their way, New York may soon be known as the town to "get some." "Get Some" is the 2008 slogan for New York City's taxpayer-funded condom distribution program. Robert Peters, with Morality in Media, objects to the program both for its promotion of promiscuous sex and its false promise of safety. "I think it will be perceived by many people -- young people, in particular -- not just to get condoms but to get promiscuous sex," he remarks. "It's like...

NYC Unveils 'Get Some' Condom Wrapper POSTED: 1:47 pm EST February 13, 2008 UPDATED: 9:10 am EST February 14, 2008 NEW YORK -- The official New York City condom has a different look and a sexy new slogan: New Yorkers are being encouraged to "get some" on Valentine's Day. Street teams will be handing out the free condoms at busy hubs around the city on Thursday, including Times Square, Wall Street and near City Hall. And an ad campaign on television, radio and subways and buses will soon begin, featuring the "Get some" catchphrase. "We want to give away as...

To activists concerned about AIDS and prisoners' rights, it's an urgent, commonsense step that should already be nationwide policy -- letting inmates have condoms to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases behind bars. Yet their efforts have run headlong into a stronger political force: Authorities' desire not to encourage inmates who flout prison rules against sex. Only one state, Vermont, and five cities regularly hand out condoms to inmates. Mississippi does so only for inmates receiving conjugal visits from their spouses. Left out are the vast majority of America's 2.2 million prisoners -- many held in facilities where sex...

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year -- the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. "A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after hitting a record low, and an increasing number of cases are caused by a "superbug" version resistant to common antibiotics, federal officials said Tuesday. Syphilis is rising, too. The rate of congenital syphilis -- which can deform or kill...

UN to Award Global PR Firm for Indian Population Control Condom Campaign Program was joint project of USAID and health ministry of Indian governmen By Hilary White NEW DELHI, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations has offered its "Grand Award" for achievement in public relations to a US-funded campaign to boost condom sales in India. The campaign, called "Condom Bindaas Bol" (Say Condom Freely), was a joint project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the health ministry of the Indian government. The campaign was meant to convince Indians that the word "condom" was not...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A major condom brand said Friday it expected thousands of applicants for a new unpaid job on offer — condom tester. Durex said 200 adult Australians — men and women — are wanted to test a range of its condoms.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, struggling to promote greater condom use among its population, is looking to hire its own "condom man" to follow the example of a former Thai cabinet minister who successfully pushed for safer sex, the Times of India reported. National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) chief Sujatha Rao said that India needed to find someone like Mechai Viravaidya, famous for getting Thais to talk about sex, condoms and AIDS.

GERMAN sex educators plan to launch a spray-on condom tailor-made for all sizes. Jan Vinzenz Krause from the Institute for Condom Consultancy, a Singen-based practice that offers advice on condom use, said today the product aimed to help people enjoy better and safer sex lives. "We're trying to develop the perfect condom for men that's suited to every size of penis," he said. "We're very serious." Mr Krause's team (spraykondom.de) is developing a type of spray can into which the man inserts his penis first. At the push of a button it is then coated in a rubber condom. "It...

The North Korean 'nuke test' causes a surge in business 'activity' in South Korea. A leading chain of convenience stores in South Korea reported a 25% rise in condom sales in the week after the test. Two weeks after sales were still up over 15%. Another national chain announced a ...

Bishop Kevin Dowling, who oversees the Catholic Diocese of Rustenberg, South Africa, isn't shy about voicing his opinion, even though it's one the Catholic church rejects. Dowling runs the Tapologo HIV/AIDS Program and sees first-hand the misery that infection has wrought on families already crippled by extreme poverty. The spread of the virus has left countless people of all ages dead, wives infected by philandering husbands and young children heading households after their parents die, unable to get the education they need to build a better life, he said. That's why Dowling advocates the use of condoms, which prevent transmission...

An Open Letter to Melinda Gates For many years the world has paid close attention to the foundation that bears your name. No one faults you or your husband for funding excellent programs to keep kids in school and assisting with the advancement of healthcare for the Third World, but the real concern of people of faith has been how the Gateses will use their money when it comes to fighting AIDS, something your husband has called "Public Enemy #1." If there had been any doubt about it up to this point, your recent address to the 16 th World...

Definitely NOT family friendly. Or, to put it another way, this is way TOO-friendly for families. Viewer Discretion Advised. Rated M for Mature Close cover before striking See for example this thread first. A Scots couple was filled with dread A five-year-old-girl in her bed-- A condom, she found ...it had "been around." (They were at Caesar's Palace. 'Nuff said!)

A Cape Coral, Fla., man gathered used condoms from a neighboring yacht club parking lot and "planted" them on sticks in the median of the street. Robert Payne said he was tired of the "public copulation" happening nightly right outside his window at the Cape Coral Yacht Club, the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press reported Tuesday. In an e-mail to city officials, Payne wrote: "I wanted to do my part as a concerned law-abiding citizen by removing the beautiful blue rubbers from the parking lot, but I was unsure what to do with them because they represent a biohazard waste product...

National Condom Week Capping this period of lunacy, many Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country will be celebrating National Condom Week from February 14-21. Examples of some of the PP activities are:   Through partnerships with two local radio stations, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas is providing “Safer Sex Kits” to listeners who answer correctly questions about condoms. The kits include condoms and information on sexually transmitted infections, birth control and emergency contraception. At Oklahoma University , Planned Parenthood is giving out free condoms and informing students about the consequences of unprotected sex. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota ,...

A group of people dressed as sperm cross a main avenue during a campaign promoting use of condoms in Bogota, Colombia, in this May 18, 2005 file photo. Roman Catholic priests in a Colombian town are furious over a councilman's proposal that people 14 and older must carry a condom at all times to reduce unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano, file)

In Tulua, Columbia a measure is being considered that would require anyone over the age of 14 to carry a condom with them at all times. This would include men, women, youth and yes even priests. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

PLANS to install 500 condom vending machines in the capital of one of India's worst HIV/AIDS-affected states have angered Muslim groups so much they have taken to the streets to protest a "condom culture". Critics of the plan by the Tamil Nadu government and India's National Aids Control Organisation to put 500 machines in the capital of Chennai and 1000 more across the state later said it would degrade women and corrupt the young. "We must fight AIDS, but these machines at public places will only promote sex outside marriage among the younger generation," said MH Jawahirullah, who heads Tamil...

Pakistan on brink of AIDS epidemic: Study Islamabad, Nov 23, IRNA Pakistan-AIDS The United Nations World Health Organization has said that Pakistan and Indonesia on the brink of a major epidemic of the deadly Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). 'The News' reported in its Wednesday issue, that a WHO report urged the two Muslim nations to speed up their actions if they are to avoid serious Human Immunity-Deficiency Virus. Given the extent of overlapping high-risk practices, increasingly serious HIV epidemics are highly likely in Pakistan, the latest report AIDS Epidemic Update-2005 said. It pointed out that a major epidemic has...

China's first liquid condom went on sale today after the country's health and drugs administration formally gave the hi-tech prophylactic the thumbs-up, the China Daily reports. Dubbed the Nanometer-silver Cryptomorphic Condom (NCC), it's designed for female rather than male usage. The condom-in-a-can is essentially an antiseptic foam spray that the manufacturer claims forms a physical membrane inside the vagina, protecting it from infection, acting as a barrier to pregnancy and providing a lubricating effect. Click Here It's not known who makes the NCC, but Beijing-based Chinese-Canadian condom maker Blue Cross Biomedical has been touting something along these lines for a...

An ad for the club in the March 23 edition of the Student Daily Bulletin offered such instruction. "Having sex? Thinking about having sex?" the ad read. "Come to room A205 at lunch on April 4th for condom club. Learn to use a condom correctly and get free condoms from the Health Center."

TORONTO, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On November 10, 2005, Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral will be holding a fundraiser for an event sponsored by St. Michael's Catholic Hospital to provide "'Life with Dignity' to people affected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world." However, Catholics and pro-family groups are concerned that the St. Michael's Hospital fundraising project, called "Angels in Africa", contravenes the teaching of the Catholic Church and the best health options for people threatened with AIDS by promoting condom usage.

Ex-president Bill Clinton is predicting that the U.S. will lose the war in Iraq, saying "the odds are not great of our prevailing there." In an interview with the Ladies Home Journal due out next month, Clinton calls the Iraq war "a quagmire" and warns "it could go wrong." He reminded: "Since the end of World War II, the only major foreign power that succeeded in putting down an insurgency was the British putting down the Malay insurgency, but the British stayed 15 years." "So you can say for historical reasons, the odds are not great of our prevailing there,"...

Can Clinton overtake Trojan Horse? The former US president is known for many things among the Chinese public, including his sexual peccadilloes and promotion of AIDS awareness and prevention. But he may be surprised to know that his monicker is now being used as a brand name by a condom manufacturer in southern China - together with that of Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern with whom he had an affair. Guangzhou Haojian Biotech Company recently announced the launch of the Clinton and Lewinsky brands of condoms. General manager Liu Wenhua proudly declared that his was the first company in...