The Wisdom of Whores

An all-time favourite, this French ad reminds us that there are all sorts of good reasons to use condoms.

For many years, Thailand’s condom king, Mechai Viravaidya, has cornered the culinary condom market with his restaurant “Cabbages and Condoms”, a Bangkok institution. But I see that others believe we should put out condoms where out mouths are…

Conscious of the environmental chaos that looms, China is encouraging its millions of avid consumers to recycle used products. But recycling condoms in the service of hair care? According to an AFP report, China is recycling used condoms into colourful rubber hair ties. Health officials are worried that people might get genital warts or HIV [...]

Of course some people do a lot more with old condoms than just make hairbands. Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini makes ball gowns, suits and party frocks out of condoms that are rejected during quality control procedures. If they were available for sale in the EU, they’d no doubt have a health and safety warning reminding [...]

Here’s one of my all-time favourite condom ads, for Kenya’s Trust brand. Hats off to the American taxpayer for funding this ad, and the very affordable and (in my experience) not bad quality Trust condoms it promotes.