The Royal Air Force Regiment sent out 20′000 condoms this year in an effort to attract recruits. The RAF Regiment is the RAF’s specialist infantry unit trained and equipped to protect military aircraft, people and bases.

Because of the low awareness of the RAF Regiment they decided to a direct marketing campaign to 20′000 males between the ages of 18-24. They received condoms mounted on cards with the slogan: “Apply to weapon when on manoeuvers” as you can see on the picture below.

The tongue-in-cheek creative concept involves a condom as it’s part of every day life in the RAF Regiment. For example, Non-lubricated condoms make excellent water carriers and are very light and compact when not in use. In fact there are many, many military uses for a condom as the rest of their letter shows:

Let us quickly assume you’re planning a home party (or party of any sorts will do fine) but you can’t seem to find a creative way for the illumination or light effects. Look no more! We’ve found you an unbeatable statement of a party light! Ok, we’re not talking about Night Light condoms, but your everyday condom that can be turned into party lights.

I never stop wondering what people come up with specially when it comes to condoms. Probably my favorite condom (ab)use so far is as football sock holder and as an action movie accessoire (ok these two aren’t bad either). Let’s get started (to watch click the image):

UK Scout Association has launched their new guidance to promote good sexual health amongst their members. Leaders will now be able to give confidential sexual health advice and ins some cases they are even allowed to give out emergency condoms on trips to the almost 500′000 scout members.

Picture credits Mark Surman

Now to get hold of these emergency condoms either your physical or mental health must be likely to suffer as specified by the Fraser Guidelines. Actually condoms are the ultimate survival kit anyways. With the rigth education you can start a fire or create emergency water carriers. Isn’t that what the scouts are about (there you have it critics!)? But of course it’s not just about condoms:

When have you heard about condoms for the first time in your lives? I bet it wasn’t as early as in your first grade (at least for me it wasn’t). Apparently some schools in China start as early as that with illustrated sex education guides which I thought were good fun to look at.

I think China is trying to catch up with full speed and that can only be a good sign. Just shortly before the Olympics the Chinese condom brand Elasun received great coverage for a brilliant Olympic condom campaign.

The story was featured on a Chinese blog as “My Nephew’s First Grade Sex Ed Guide” and translated by chinasmack for your reading pleasure. In case you’re wondering what the rest of it looks like see for yourselves after the jump or click on the picture.

At the time all visitors to the sensationally successful Swedish intimate care guide www.shavethepussy.com are greeted with a simple “the site is closed“. You may wonder why since the site was attracting so many visitors, but the explanation is very simple. The RFSU cream soaps and gels associated with shavethepussy.com aren’t available in English speaking countries so they saw no reason in keeping it online.

But of course the reason for this entry is another one. Yes you can still access the pubic shaving fun through the back door which in this case is the Swedish version of the game. There are some minor differences but you definitely don’t need to speak any Swedish to get the hang out of it. Remember to give your piece of art an innovative name like “the bold and the beautiful“. Let’s see what you achieve with some scissors, a shaver and a comb.

Dear US American reader! This is a little friendly reminder to vote and to send this article to 5 friends to remind them to vote (ask google) also. It’s a little roundup about what the candidates stand for and what’s happening in the whole sexual education debate. It seems that apart from the whole credit crunch it could be a key position in this election (and while at it check out the blog action day and think about what voting can do for poverty. Hint: ONE thing).

The condom has always been a highly political item. That hasn’t really changed much since the early 1990s and it looks like there are more than ever two radically opposed positions:

• Abstinence and opposing abortion rights are favored by McCain and the Conservative Party
• Contraception/Condom Use and support of abortion rights favored by Obama and the Democratic Party

Although to be fair here Palin thinks children should be taught about condoms..maybe someone should tell Madonna who was throwing condoms with Palin faces into the crowd at her last concert.  But as a matter of fact condoms ARE important. We’ll let ONE Condoms do the explaining (just in case you were wondering, none of the items are made up):

Ever since Bill Gates‘ Foundation and the BBC World Service Trust produced a sensationally successful condom ringtone he’s more and more becoming a condom superstar. That’s probably what Belgian Love Condom had in mind when producing their last campaign.

The ad says: “I finally discovered an efficient antivirus!!” and it’s signed by “Bill”. Which is quite funny when you take his latest latest area of engagement into account (listen to the condom ringtone here).

Does size matter? Is it smaller or larger than my mate’s?

These two questions might be among the most frequently asked in the universe. And today Condomunity is going to make your life so much easier (in best lifehacker manner). Enters Condometric!

Condometric is a 205mm measuring tape printed on a condom (and a revamp of peter meter at that). It comes in 4 flavors like natural - can never go wrong with that - cherry, lime and banana. It’s also a very philosophical condom if you believe the makers homepage: “Condometric helps us flaunt what we’ve got. It’s about believing we can handle whatever we wish to take on, regardless of size.”

Btw. it’s a real “fully functional” condom that can be bought in packs of 3,6 and 12. I personally think this is a pretty funny idea and for everyone else, at least it will put an end to all doubts where people are supposed to measure from.

La Reina del Condón is a movie about German-born Monika Krause, who married a Cuban boat captain and went on to become Cuba’s first state sex educator. It is a movie about a tireless campaigner and her impact on the Cuba after the revolution.

As a 20-year-old she packed her things and sailed to Cuba with the man she fell in love with. She soon started to mingle with the highest circles of the revolution, worked for the Federation of Cuban Women and translated for Fidel Castro. A few years later she gains nationwide fame in her role as state sex educator, with radio and TV programmes of her own.

In this land of deeply rooted machismo, the emancipated German fought for the right of women to sexual gratification, contraception and abortion. As a taboo-breaker, she gained fame overnight throughout the country as the «Reina del Condón» – the Queen of the Condom, loved and adored by some, hated and feared by others.