Remember the Obama Condoms, the Palin-McCain Condoms or maybe the Tiger Woods Condoms all popping up when the World media was seemingly focused on just one topic?

Since the laugh is always on the loser we now have another special edition condom coming up: please welcome the Oil Spill Condom.

The Oil Spill Condom Wrapper

The creator claims:

Today I’m presenting you the new condom-shooter kid in town: Privates, by a small game producing company called Zombie Cow Studios.

The concept of the game is easily explained: in Privates you’re leading a gang of warriors outfitted with condoms (hats) and heavy weaponry. Their job is to get rid of all kind of grotty infections in people’s private parts and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters.

The game that reminds me of the AIDS prevention classic Catch the Sperm is brought to you by Zombie Cow Studios and the British Channel 4.

NYC Condoms – As mentioned before in an earlier post, the NYC Condom wrapper has gotten a new face: please welcome the “Power Button”. Although the city had just redone the wrapper design and other elements by fuseproject a short time ago, they wanted to keep people talking about its free condom line. Therefore the Health Department set up a design contest and invited New Yorkers to design their own.

Announced in December, the contest drew nearly 600 entries from all five boroughs as well as other states and countries from around the world. A panel of local artists, advertising professionals and public health and social-marketing experts chose five finalists whose entries best captured the city’s spirit and the NYC Condom program’s public health message.

What do you get when you pair endangered species with a few catchy lines and condoms? A clever campaign that highlights the impact of human overpopulation on wildlife.

The Center for Biological Diversity and – most importantly – 3,000 volunteers are distributing 200,000 free Endangered Species Condoms across the United States (in 50 states) to highlight how unsustainable human population growth is driving species extinct at a cataclysmic rate. They are supposed to help people understand the impact of overpopulation on other species and give them a chance to take action in their own life.

Quite some time ago I published an article about the history of condoms in Japan in particular, and the history of condoms in general. Next year New York’s Museum of Sex on Fifth Avenue will be holding an exhibition called: RUBBERS: the Life, History & Struggle of the Condom.

The condom exhibition is organized in partnership with the makers of Trojan Brand Condoms one of the leading brands in the US.

Opening on February 4, 2010, this exhibition takes a fun, functional, and fundamental look at the history and progression of the condom from a single object to its role a multidisciplinary artifact:

The iconic NYC Condom is going to change – again. Although this time it’s not going to be another major overhaul: The NYC Health Department wants to keep their rubbers interesting and asks New Yorks residents to design their own wrappers.

This is planned to be a limited edition that will replace parts of last years redesign made by Yves Béhar and his team. Their award winning design sure was one reason why the NYC Condom was picked up about 41 million times this year (from 2,200 venues ranging from hospitals and social service agencies to bars, clubs and coffee houses).

The new design will be unveiled in the fall of 2010. Read on to see how you could be the next NYC Condom designer.

Frequent readers of Condomunity.com will remember the Obama, Palin and the McCain Condoms that were the so popular during the Elections period in late 2008 and this year.

I just got an email from the maker of these clever viral condoms and so I’ve got some breaking news for you:

Cometh the Tiger Condom:

The Wrapper says Protect Your Wood and Approved for Swingers.

Ever seen a green condom? Introducing: Luemmeltueten – the first completely climate neutral condoms. The German condom brand plans to achieve a net zero carbon footprint by compensating the CO₂ released in the condoms’ production process.

Here’s why and how: Luemmeltueten produces not only five million rubbers per year, but unfortunately also 400 tons of CO₂. Approximately half of these emissions are offset by reforesting 2200 m² in a German forest near the condom factory. In South India, where the rubber is harvested in a FairDeal Trading fashion, the plantation workers are given solar-powered cookers. Each cooker will compensate 500kg in 5 years. Furthermore, to exemplify the climate friendly philosophy, the Lebenslust company uses only green electricity, bicycle couriers (where possible) and energy-saving lamps.

If you’ve ever dreamed of THE special dress that no one else has then this might be your chance. Adriana Bertini, the well known Brazilian condom artist, is selling her works.

As I’ve learned today the condom dresses will be on sale only for a limited time (and the last time apparently).

Bertini’s works had almost global appearances from magazines like TimeOut to newspapers like the LA Times and she even dressed models at a Shanghai (condom-) fashion show.