Tag Archives: condoms
Condom searches are being used to profile sex workers
TweetYou may remember the feminist blogosphere talking about laws that said carrying condoms could get you arrested. A new report from Human Rights Watch examines the issue: sex workers and people profiled as sex workers, especially trans women, are being targeted by the cops with condom searches in Prostitution Free Zones. This puts sex workers at [...]
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Sports fans to get free condoms at Euro 2012
TweetCan you imagine if the US government gave out free condoms at the Super Bowl? That’s basically the equivalent of what will happen in Poland next month, when the country is one of the hosts of Euro 2012, Europe’s annual football tournament held every four years (that’s soccer to all us ignorant Americans). The tournament runs from [...]
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Condom policing in New York
TweetThese days, there’s a fairly broad consensus– among public health advocates, educators, parents, the media, and the porn industry– that condoms are GOOD. Whether one is penis-possessing or just along for the ride, most of us have been told to “wrap it up” since before we were performing acts that required us to do so. [...]
Will.i.am doesn’t like women who have their own condoms and I don’t like him
TweetSlut-shaming with a side of awful sex education? My favorite! Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas recently told Elle that he thinks women who have their own condoms are a total boner-killer. ELLE: If you walked into a woman’s house, what one item would convince you that you weren’t compatible? W: If she had condoms [...]
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What porn can teach us about safer sex