September 5, 2007
Good Intentions Gone Awry?
The Washington Post is reporting that there are concerns about the quality of condoms in a current free condom initiative by the city of Washington DC.
Consumerist has the right take on it. "We would be remiss not to point out how cool the NYC subway condom is. It's free and cool looking, and as far as we know it doesn't explode in your purse."
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Condoms & Global Climate Change
"Efforts to slow global warming will never work if conservatives of all kinds keep blocking women's access to contraception", says William Laurance, a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama.
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Shrinking Market in the UK?
We don't usually post press releases but this one seems appropriate.
Society is changing and, although levels of sexual activity have not altered much overall, people are becoming sexually active at an earlier age. This impacts on the teenage pregnancy rate, which is still the highest in Europe, and also on the occurrences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which are increasing at alarming rates. More education on STIs and more encouragement to use condoms, in particular, is currently a government target. This is boosting volume sales of condoms and encouraging more players to move into the sector, but revenue growth, as a whole, is currently on a downward curve within a
heavily discounted market. Manufacturers of condoms have attempted to redress the loss in value through expansion of condom ranges into areas such as lubricants and massagers.
UPDATE More on condom related news from the UK.
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