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CONSUMER REPORTS, in an article rating condom performance, in which two of Planned Parenthood's three offerings ranked the lowest of the 23 models tested. The Lollipop came...
...credited with returning reproductive rights activism to campus, brandishes a female condom. Safo displays a bracelet that only upon close scrutiny is revealed to be a catalogue of Kama Sutra sexual positions. And after checking with the crowd that talk of her self-professed favorite topic, sex, wouldn’t make things “awkward,” Menendez quotes a Harvard interview subject for her senior thesis: “Please, I’m not going to get an STD—I only sleep with guys who wear loafers...
People like to pretend that the Olympics happen outside of time. Actually, the Games are always defined by the moment in which they're held, and if Sydney 2000 was the great global orgy, in which the condom machines in the athletes' village famously couldn't be refilled fast enough, Athens 2004 was often the uncomfortable morning after, the reckoning in which everyone was forced to bundle up the sheets and wonder where this whole international relationship was going...
...Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extramarital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
Several factors have contributed to the worsening trends. "We have become complacent," says Mechai Viravaidya, (a.k.a. Mr. Condom), a senator and the principal architect of Thailand's successful anti-AIDS program of the 1990s. "People think because they can't see HIV anymore that we have it kicked, and they are taking risks again." Following the Asia-wide economic crash of 1997, successive Thai governments have slashed budgets for prevention programs to less than half their 1997 levels. Condom funding is down, education programs in schools have ended, and the media campaign has all but disappeared. At the same time...