The Condom Fashion Show (Project Cumway?) and Other Good and Bad Ways to Promote Condom Use in Places Like South Africa

I think this fashion show in China was actually sort of clever and the designs are pretty cool. Will it make Chinese use condoms more to prevent overpopulation and AIDS? I’m not so sure.

Here’s an article with more pics. It reminds me a bit of how South Africa always tries to come up with idiotic new ways of getting people to use rubbers to tackle their AIDS problem, the worst one in the world. One was sending out a letter from the government explaining that you need to use condoms not to catch the bug and enclosing a sample rubber. Sounds decent enough, right? Maybe if they didn’t staple the condom to the letter. (I’m not joking, look it up).

Or this, voted “the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa. It’s a “condom applicator.” Jeez, like do you really need one? No offence to my SA friends but I associate this with the African sense of entitlement and macho superiority. “I can’t put this on, my china. I’m African, and until I’m delivered a special device to put this thing on my dick, it’s bareback or nothing.” “Jawelnofine, let’s do bareback.” Ironically the expression “china” is SA speak for ‘my friend’ or ‘my dear.’

In abit of a redux mention, I think the coolest AIDS prevention stuff came in the series of French PSA’s by then absolutely brilliant animation director Wilfrid Brimo which I’ve mentioned before and the messages is pure and simple: “vivez assez longtemps pour trouver le bon.” There’s a straight one, a gay one and one about a pervert like yours truly. The first two are bittersweet, the straight one, a bit more so:

But the gay one is actually a little more humorous.

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