Tag: condoms

People with issues #228

Janice enjoyed the attention at the office party, & she had never been known for "playing hard to get."
Janice enjoyed the attention at the office party, & she had never been known for “playing hard to get.”

Just another day at the office #229

Lyle was doing great until the crowd realized he was distributing condoms & not bananas.
Lyle was doing great until the crowd realized he was distributing condoms & not bananas.

The lost weekend

John couldn't remember a thing about his trip, but from the souvenir sitting in the corner of his office it looked like he must have had a pretty good time.
John couldn’t remember a thing about his Paris trip, but from the souvenir sitting in the corner of his office it looked like he must have had a pretty good time.

View from a Rhino House: sex, politics & hypocrisy

On Wednesday Brazil’s health ministry cancelled a just-starting (before the World Cup cash starts pouring-in) information campaign urging sex workers to use condoms, after coming under pressure from conservative lawmakers.

“I’m happy being a prostitute” was the slogan on the web-based campaign for International Prostitute Day (I wonder if there is a special greetings card for that?) that also encouraged sex workers to not be “ashamed to seek medical treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.”

The campaign was launched on the health ministry’s website, Facebook & Twitter over the weekend, instantly provoking a wave of criticism, especially from evangelical legislators in Brazil’s congress (hard to believe, I know).

“We are fighting childhood prostitution & here comes a campaign encouraging it,” federal deputy Liliam Sá said in a congressional committee meeting. (The campaign offered free cartoons, ice-cream, balloons & condoms? How cool is that?)

Health Minister Alexandre Padilha an ambitious, if slippery, politician in the ruling Workers’ Party said in a Twitter post late on Tuesday evening that the campaign had gone ahead without his authorization (of course it did Alex, of course it did).

Twittering Padilha said the decision to scrap the campaign “came before any protests for or against it.” A true politician, down to the soles of his (expensive) shoes.

To sum up, Brazil has exclusively female, child prostitutes & the politicians don’t care if they all die horribly, or maybe they do – it depends how far into the week you are. Thank God there are no adult or male prostitutes & that only women spread STDs. Maybe they could go the whole extra mile & just rename the country “Iran”.

"I know, even Carnival was a washout this year. I guess the World Cup gig is no-hoper?"
“I know, even Carnival was a washout this year. I guess the World Cup gig is no-hoper?”