NYC Health Dept.'s E-Condoms Just in Time for Valentine's Day

Ronald Bailey | February 13, 2009

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. 

Comments

|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|#

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. ... [italics added]

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.