Today, a story from Scarleteen, titled Frankenboobs, by Audra Williams:
“I don’t know,” grinned my friend Amanda,”I think you’ve got a half decent chest.”
Hmph. Half decent indeed. I was about 14 I started to realize that only one of my breasts was developing. That’s weird, I thought. Oh well, puberty is weird, bodies are weird, [...]
Archives for June, 2007
Frankenboobs
Daily condom commercial #4
This one’s from Nairobi. Other countries have the best condom commercials!
Why the Trojan condom commercial is emblematic of abstinence-only sex education
Jill Filipovic wrote for the Huffington Post on why the CBS and Fox executives might have decided not to run the new Trojan ad. I really recommend you read the piece in its entirety, but here’s the first and last bits, to get you really interested:
According to a Fox executive, “Contraceptive advertising must stress [...]
Daily Condom Commercial #3
Particularly effective for teenage boys.
We’ve actually come a long way
This post by Ethan Persoff is making it’s way around the blogs this week. It’s a scanned comic book from Planned Parenthood from the 1950’s-1960’s. Reading through it is pretty amazing - I highly recommend that you take a look for yourself.
The comic tells the story of a couple who have been married [...]
Trojan commercial
This is the Trojan commercial that aired for the first time last night on ABC. NBC and nine cable networks will also run it. Print ads will run in 11 magazines and on 7 websites. Fox and CBS wouldn’t run it.
"Just Yell Fire"
Two teenage girls with an intense background in martial arts and street fighting created a video aimed at teaching teen girls how to protect themselves and get away from a potential abductor or a rapist. (The video can be downloaded for free, just follow the link from the banner on the left.) I [...]
New condom ad
There’s a new condom ad on the block, and it’s getting a lot of attention. Here is a description from Commercial Alert:
In a commercial for Trojan condoms that has its premiere tonight, women in a bar are surrounded by anthropomorphized, cellphone-toting pigs. One shuffles to the men’s room, where, after procuring a condom from [...]
A good weekend activity
This was a young woman’s masters thesis project. She and her boyfriend are playing a video game. The controls are on their underwear.
Here is one reason Wired Magazine liked it:
“Lighthearted and playful, the invention nevertheless has a serious side. With it, Jennifer acknowledges the seductive nature of video games and the deleterious effect [...]
