Do you know how to open a condom? Are you sure? ‘Cause there’s totally an app for that. (Trust us, if this guy can do it, so can you.)
The Artful Condom
Art can be anywhere you desire, even in your contraceptive of choice. Take the condom, for instance. Putting one on takes a bit of skill—at least that’s what I heard—but practice makes perfect (and fortunately there’s an app for that). While I highly discourage you from creating your own condom, feel free to create pretty things with them! Check out the images below. Apparently, love gloves make for great art tools. Blow them up, paint them, sprinkle them with glitter or add splashes of paint—you’ve got yourself an arts and crafts project that’s probably better than your younger sister’s.
Action figures are so last year. These figurines are fun and inflatable! They’re from Condomerie, the self-proclaimed “world’s first condom specialty shop.” If you happen to be in Amsterdam one day, be sure to visit their display window—it attracts the frisky folks from all over the world.
The animal kingdom gets a little kinkier with these condom giraffes.
Can’t make the Olympic games this summer? This meme shows that condoms can be fun in the bed and in sports, too! Elasun, a Chinese condom company, wants users to get in the game and just do it…literally.
Always go for the gold…in sports and in bed.
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Khalea Underwood is an intern for the digital media team of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. When she’s not writing, shopping, or listening to music, the Howard University print journalism student moonlights as an older sister, a contributor for MTVIggy.com, and a copy editor for The Hilltop newspaper.
5 Songs with Superstar Condom Cameos
Yikes. Ray Stephens from Have Sex Standing Up is pretttyyy ticked off. He can’t believe that a significant number of folks know little or nothing about condoms. Do you know who does? Musicians! There are lots of song lyrics that mention condoms. Since we can’t send iPods to the uninformed masses, here are the lyrics to those catchy condom tunes. I think that they’ll remember “jimmy hats” much better now.
And don’t have sex if she’s too gone/when it comes to condoms put two on (trust me)-–“I Love College,” Asher Roth
Rapper Asher Roth seems to have the right intention, but I hope the mention of using two condoms is metaphorical since two is NOT better than one when it comes to condoms (in fact, it’s worse).
And I said uhhhh, you are like the type of girl I like…/I said hold on/and it won’t take long /baby put this put this put this rubber on!—“Rubber On,” Pitbull
Pitbull uses a weapon of mass protection in the heat (Miami heat?) of the moment. Smart man!
All the better to love you with!/No glove, no love/if you don’t believe me-–“Evil Boy,” Die Antwoord
A self-explanatory line from South African rap trio Die Antwoord—no cuddling without condoms.
And she say I got great sex/Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex/’cause you don’t want that late text/that “I think I’m late,” text…so wrap it up!-–“Lollipop (Remix),” Lil’ Wayne
Brilliant wordplay (before foreplay) from the self-proclaimed best rapper alive. Weezy F. Baby doesn’t want another baby, so he rightfully wraps it up.
I went to the free clinic, it was filled to capacity/now how bad can a piece of a** be?/Very bad, so I had to make the trip/and thank God, I didn’t have the drips/I was there so a h** couldn’t gimme that/just to get - twenty free jimmy hats-–“Look Who’s Burnin’,” Ice Cube
What’s cooler than cool? Rapper Ice Cube dishing about his trip to a health clinic for “jimmy hats.” (And it comes full circle.)
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Khalea Underwood is an intern for the digital media team of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. When she’s not writing, shopping, or listening to music, the Howard University print journalism student moonlights as an older sister, a contributor for MTVIggy.com, and a copy editor for The Hilltop newspaper.
And a havesexstandingup*com “b side,” just for fun…
Hilarious and good for you?
It all started with sex standing up… We wanted to make sure everyone knew that it’s just for fun, not for birth control. So we worked with Third Floor Productions and comedian Danny Rouhier to make a PSA of a cheesy spokesman getting really, really angry when he learns that almost 1 in 5 guys (ages 18-29) thinks having sex standing up significantly decreases the risk of pregnancy (yep, it’s the video embedded above). The PSA did pretty well on YouTube, but when we were given the opportunity to find out more about how it comes across to viewers, we went for it.
Enter Pete McGraw and Joel Warner, the scholar and the skeptic who comprise The Humor Code. We worked with them to make three more PSAs for Pete to test in a lab to find out which, if any of them, actually have an effect on people’s decision-making and behavior. But enough about us, check out Joel’s awesome article about the project on Wired.
