Get Your Official N.y. Condom!

[Lulu2]

With typical New York brashness, the city plans to provide "official" condoms! It's a sensible plan, I suppose....and could make a great souvenier for the folks back home!

Read more:

Available soon from City Hall: an official New York condom in a jazzy wrapper, perhaps one printed with a colorful subway map or some other city theme.

New York City hands out 1.5 million free condoms a month in ordinary wrappers, and health officials figure people would be more likely to actually use them if the packaging were more distinctive.

"Brands work, and people use branded items more than they use non- branded items, whether it's a cola or a medicine, even," Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said.

The health department, which uses the condom program to fight AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, said it still considering package designs. Among the possibilities: a subway theme, with the various lines shown in different colors.

The 18 million free condoms each year go to hundreds of organizations, which distribute them at health clinics and advocacy groups, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, nail salons and prisons. By comparison, the Los Angeles County health department gives out just over a million condoms per year.

New York buys the condoms for 4 cents each, or $720,000 annually, health officials said. City officials, who conduct an annual health survey, say a memorable package could also help them gauge how often people actually use the city's condom. "If they describe our wrapper, then we'll know that they would have used our condom," Frieden said.

More than 100,000 New Yorkers have HIV or AIDS, and AIDS is the third- leading cause of death among New Yorkers under 65.

[Marie5656]

Hmm..wonder if it will have the slogan "I Love NY " printed on it?

[Lulu2]

How about "I Love IN N.Y?"

[RedGlitter]

It sounds like a good thing. We had this convo before in another thread but I just want to mention again, I am surprised about distributing them to prisons. I can't fathom prisoners taking time or concern to put one on unless we're talking conjugals maybe. But anyway I'm a little more low key than most when it comes to public condoms (condomation?) but sometimes you gotta do what works. I'd even take one home as a souvenir.

[Richard Bell]

Marie5656;531822 wrote: Hmm..wonder if it will have the slogan "I Love NY " printed on it?


I'd go with an image of the Chrysler Building, for an all too obvious reason.

[Lulu2]

:wah: Better than a cathedral, isn't it?

[Lulu2]

In the interests of research (of course) I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a "small" size in condoms.

Anyone know why that'd be? :sneaky:

[RedGlitter]

jesse b;532242 wrote: put small on packet no one would want them

put medium a few would take them

put large on them a lot would take them



PUT X LARGE EVERY ONE WOULD TAKE LOADS AND BE PROAD TO SHOW THEM OFF


:wah:

[Richard Bell]

Lulu2;532238 wrote: :wah: Better than a cathedral, isn't it?


...unless you're Opie or Anthony !

[Tater Tazz]

I personnally think they should hand them out. Maybe it would help.

[Lulu2]

The article says they DO hand out one & a half million every year...perhaps making clever little packages will add to the appeal?

I agree....anything which makes sex safer is a good thing!

(Makes me think of Martha Stewart. HEY! Martha would be a good design consultant!)

[Lulu2]

"If I can MAKE it there, I'll make it ANYwhere...."

[Lulu2]

:p