Still loving these condom commercials. I’m running out of new ones, though, so I’m looking to start making my own video. I would love a little technical help on front end - anyone out there a video guru? I can probably work with you long distance - I just have some questions and need a little guidance
This is one reason why you want your sons and daughters to have their own condoms - you get more sleep that way!
Germans take sex education far more seriously than Americans. That is to say, they go ahead and bite the bullet and do real sex education rather than stuffing their fingers in their ears and humming loudly whenever anyone brings up the issue. This was made loud and clear to me in my recent time in Germany.
I spent the majority of my time on vacation in small, quaint German villages. Here’s a view of one of them from the window of a ruined castle.
And here’s another view that I saw posted everywhere through the same small, quaint village.
The top center means something along the lines of “Safety makes it more fun!,” in the lower right “Make it with it,” and in the lower left “Don’t give AIDS a chance.”
Now, not only do we almost never see condom advertisements in public in the US, we certainly never see them posted all over small towns. I’m delighted by this open conversation, and supported by humor! (I mean, really, condoms are supposed to go on bananas, not lemons, yes?)
And, as a fun side note, I found this image while searching for a good reproduction of the advertisement above and just had to include it. Gotta love that pubic hair!
You’ve gotta love this. Talk about taking wearing a condom to a whole new level!
These are all images taken during a fashion show at the Fourth Annual China Reproductive Health New Technologies & Products Expo. It was, rather unimaginatively, sponsored by Guilin Latex Factory, China’s largest condom manufacturer. But honestly, I can forgive a large amount of crass mass marketing when it results in wedding dresses made out of condoms.
Send some of these pictures to your teenager - and get started talking about how wearing a condom is both practical and stylish! 
There is a big problem with this commercial. Most teenagers - most people I expect - would see this commercial and believe it, but be unwilling to apply it’s message to their sexual partners.
Without substantial conversation, this commercial just wouldn’t influence many people’s actions. Convincing teenagers that their partners might - gasp! - lie to them, or even decline to mention something as huge as an HIV infection is a major uphill battle. This commercial doesn’t even begin to fight that battle. (Similarly, nor would simply quoting that statistical factoid to your teenager without serious follow-up.)
The last commercial in this delightful series. Americans run funny, engaging commercials on every other topic - I wish we could run them on safe sex too!
The second out of three! See below for the previous one…and come back on Monday for the grand finale!
This is the first in a series, folks, so come back tomorrow for the girl’s perspective!
This one is, of course, French. It promotes condoms as being conducive to physical pleasure.
This one’s from Nairobi. Other countries have the best condom commercials!
