The same folks who threw transfats ouf the Big Apple and are now
trying to ban salt -- all for New Yorkers' own good of course --
unveiled their Facebook page featuring e-condoms. 
As the New York Times explains:
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which introduced the city’s official condom on Valentine’s Day two years ago, has introduced a Facebook page and Facebook application to promote the use of condoms. ...
As of Wednesday afternoon, nearly 1,500 e-condoms, as the Facebook messages are called, had been circulated through the site. The application includes a ranking that displays who has sent the most e-condoms, though several on the list — Jessica Scaperotti, Sheryl Tirol-Goodwin, Geoffrey Cowley, Sara Markt and Celina De Leon — were employees of the health department’s communications office.
Happy Valentine's Day from the NYC Health Department.
Whole Times article here.
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|2.13.09 @ 11:22AM|#
This is silly. Everyone knows you can't get pregnant on Valentine's Day anyway.
Xeones|2.13.09 @ 11:24AM|#
Mental Hygiene? What the fuck?
Spoonman|2.13.09 @ 11:27AM|#
Mental Hygiene. K.
|2.13.09 @ 11:32AM|#
Move along folks. No waste of tax money to see here.
Zeb|2.13.09 @ 11:39AM|#
I see I am not the only person with this reaction, but:
Mental hygiene? What the Fuck?
|2.13.09 @ 11:41AM|#
A world without income tax witholdings:
[knock at the door]
NYCDH&MH: Hi, we're collecting money to create an official NYC condom and develop a Facebook application to promote condom use.
HOMEOWNER: Sorry, I'm not interested.
NYCDH&MH: Oh, that's cute! But serisouly, we're not asking. As I said, We're here collecting.
[HOMEOWNER pays]
NYCDH&MH: You don't have to be so grumpy about it, asshole. See you tomorrow!
dhex|2.13.09 @ 11:42AM|#
it's a 19th century way of saying "mental health".
for some reason they never changed it.
|2.13.09 @ 11:47AM|#
Like the NAACP.
|2.13.09 @ 11:51AM|#
Can't we just seal everything east of the Hudson River in a (air)tight-fitting latex wrapper and forget about it?
As far as that goes, "everything east of the Mississippi River" would work, for me.
cmace|2.13.09 @ 11:55AM|#
Mental hygiene. That what they called in the army. Usually trying to get rid of someone for psych reasons.
LarryA|2.13.09 @ 12:00PM|#
Wow. Turning condoms into spam.
T|2.13.09 @ 12:18PM|#
Well, I guess these would work great for all that virtual sex I'm having with hot chicks on Facebook.
So, one e-condom should last me about a decade or two. Do they have expiration dates like real ones?
Alan S.|2.13.09 @ 1:14PM|#
Why would I want in e-condom? I don't have an e-penis!
Lobo Tommy|2.13.09 @ 1:16PM|#
I brush and floss my corpus callosum twice a day.
jtuf|2.13.09 @ 4:28PM|#
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
I think the mental hygiene program is dedicated to brain washing. Patients get a choice of agreeing with the doctor, getting a medication dose increase, or getting electro shock therapy.
MattXIV|2.13.09 @ 5:23PM|#
A lame attempt to get teenagers to read the same handouts they ignored during sex-ed using the whatever bureaucrats think the kids these days are into - how could it fail?
zoltan|2.14.09 @ 3:15PM|#
You guys had sex-ed? Here in Texas, I had to sign a pledge saying I would be abstinent until marriage. It was definitely more helpful.
Sex Toys, Adam & Eve|12.2.09 @ 4:55AM|#
It seems like real condoms would do a bit more good...
Sex Toys, Buckwiz|12.26.09 @ 9:41AM|#
Use condom for safe !!!
Sensual4u|6.11.10 @ 5:37AM|#
E-condoms will be helpful for e-sex? THese days regular condoms will do more good.