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

Ronald Bailey | 2.13.2009 11:07 AM

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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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  1. FrBunny   17 years ago

    This is silly. Everyone knows you can't get pregnant on Valentine's Day anyway.

  2. Xeones   17 years ago

    Mental Hygiene? What the fuck?

  3. Spoonman   17 years ago

    Mental Hygiene. K.

  4. J sub D   17 years ago

    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.

  5. Zeb   17 years ago

    I see I am not the only person with this reaction, but:

    Mental hygiene? What the Fuck?

  6. FrBunny   17 years ago

    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!

  7. dhex   17 years ago

    it's a 19th century way of saying "mental health".

    for some reason they never changed it.

  8. FrBunny   17 years ago

    Like the NAACP.

  9. P Brooks   17 years ago

    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.

  10. cmace   17 years ago

    Mental hygiene. That what they called in the army. Usually trying to get rid of someone for psych reasons.

  11. LarryA   17 years ago

    Wow. Turning condoms into spam.

  12. T   17 years ago

    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?

  13. Alan S.   17 years ago

    Why would I want in e-condom? I don't have an e-penis!

  14. Lobo Tommy   17 years ago

    I brush and floss my corpus callosum twice a day.

  15. jtuf   17 years ago

    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.

  16. MattXIV   17 years ago

    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?

  17. zoltan   17 years ago

    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.

  18. Sex Toys, Adam & Eve   16 years ago

    It seems like real condoms would do a bit more good...

  19. Sex Toys, Buckwiz   16 years ago

    Use condom for safe !!!

  20. sex toys australia   16 years ago

    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. -- this is much better than ads on condom.

  21. john smyth   16 years ago

    E-condoms will work for e-sex.

  22. Sensual4u   16 years ago

    E-condoms will be helpful for e-sex? THese days regular condoms will do more good.

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