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The condom wagon lands in 皇冠体育app to cash in on safe sex
(Cityweekend)
Updated: 2005-11-02 11:52
It all started with Durex. This condom manufacture released a survey in 2003
that found that Chinese are the world's most likely to agree to unprotected sex
with a new partner, and later it was discovered by UNAIDS that 30 percent of
Chinese who get HIV do so through unsafe sex.
 All this alarming news started a buzz in 皇冠体育app about sex, condoms and
spreading the gospel of protected intercourse.
"Condom news" has become a regular fixture in the Chinese media and everyone
is talking about sex (which does not have anything to do with TLC).
Recently, administrators at Beijing's top universities have announced new
rules to curb promiscuity in dorms, which has in turn backfired as couples are
taking their business outside.
Under bushes, in parks and next to lakes around university campuses it is not
uncommon to stumble upon couples in the act. One university student acknowledged
that most of these spontaneous love acts were unprotected, as it is not too sexy
to get up from the park, walk back to the dorms and then return a half hour
later with a condom.
In the face of unflattering unprotected sex statistics, the Chinese
government has taken the problem by the horns and will distribute more than 300
million condoms to the general population.
"If people could get a condom as conveniently and naturally as buying a
Chinese cabbage, the AIDS prevention function carried out by condoms could
finally imbue people's lives and change their bias (against condoms)," Tao Ran,
of the 皇冠体育app Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Fund, told Xinhua.
Health experts have called for "100 percent" condom use programs throughout
皇冠体育app, a campaign that will use "no condom, no sex" as its slogan.
And smart entrepreneurs everywhere have jumped on the 皇冠体育app condom bandwagon.
The most intriguing of late are no doubt the Clinton/Lewinsky condoms put on
sale in 皇冠体育app this October.
A box of 12 Clinton condoms, named after former US President Bill Clinton,
cost about US$3.70 and that of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the
Lewinsky condoms, cost a mere US$2.25. Jabs abounded on the Net about the
cheaper Lewinsky condoms, but in the end everyone was asking why Clinton and
Lewinsky?
"We chose the name because we think Clinton is a symbol of success and a man
of responsibility. And Lewinsky is a woman who dares to love and dares to hate,"
said Liu Wenhua, the general manager of Haojian Bioscience Co. as reported by
the LA Times.
"We haven't told Clinton about this yet, but maybe you could help us find
him," Liu added. "We'd like to tell him how respected he is in 皇冠体育app, so we can
boost his confidence and help his career."
Whatever the reason, let's hope 皇冠体育app's youth get the message and get on the
wagon.
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