Condoms and More Condoms

Yesterday I listened to a very interesting advert on condoms. It got me thinking that this whole ‘campaign’ of wear-a-condom-during-sex-to-avoid-getting-Aids is a mere advertising gimmick. Well, this is my own opinion and I have a very good reason for thinking the way I do.

In the advert, a certain woman is asking for something from a certain man (let our woman be Jane and our man be John). Since John has things in his hands he asks Jane to take out what she is asking for from one of his pockets. She plunges one of her hands in his pocket and when it emerges, alas, there is a packet of condoms among the things removed from the pocket. Jane becomes very interested and asks when they can go to John’s home so that they can try out the condoms. John, happy that he’s found a sure lay, says that they’ll go after work.



If condoms are designed in such a way that when you see them you think of sex, then God knows where we are headed.
• Is this justifiable especially in this era of Aids?
• Are we being fair to the school-going teenagers and youth whose emotions are flying high ( and who feel and are convicted that they can not engage in sexual activity because Aids is lurking somewhere out there)?
• How many lives will be ‘lost’ in this way (either through death or moral decadence)?
• Some years ago we were preaching “use a condom to prevent Aids infection”. Are we going to change our tune and song and start preaching “If you have lost sexual interest, use a condom and you’ll regain it”?

These are the questions that should be in the heads of these condom manufacturers as they sit in their board meetings. Otherwise, they’ll be offering quack cures for old ills and this is not what we need.