Posted on 02/13/2007 2:59:16 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NYC To Hand Out Free Condoms On Valentine's Day
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK If you need to buy flowers or chocolate for your Valentine on Wednesday, you're on your own. The condoms, however, are free -- courtesy of New York City.
Taking advantage of the holiday for lovers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration was to unveil the official city condom in midtown Manhattan, where volunteers were to hand them out free at Fifth Avenue and 50th Street.
The health department's condom program already distributes 1.5 million free condoms each month, but the regular wrapper doesn't allow for tracking the effectiveness of the effort. Officials hope that will change with the new design, which is said to revolve around a subway theme, with different colors for the various train lines.
Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden recently told The Associated Press that the distinctive wrapper will provide the opportunity to include questions about the condom on the city's annual health survey.
"We ask, 'Did you use a condom the last time you had sex?' And once this is launched, the next time we ask that question, of those people who say yes, we'll say, 'What did the wrapper look like?"' Frieden said. "And if they describe our wrapper, then we'll know that they would have used our condom."
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Slowly NYC is turning into Sodom. Sad.
This is the sort of tunnel vision that the media manipulates so handily.
It would take books for me to describe the sheer good I experience in this city in one solitary week. So some moron abuses his office and you've condemned the whole city?
Turn off your TV and get some fresh air. It's much nicer out here than it is in that box.
Stay classy, New York.
Courtesy of the New York City taxpayer.
Say it with rubber
kinda catchy
Who voted that moron into office? The whole city.
Good! Once spring comes, we can fill them with water and throw them off the roof!
New York: A city with a reason to brag.
"It would take books for me to describe the sheer good I experience in this city in one solitary week."
I'm curious. . . .
The health department's condom program already distributes 1.5 million free condoms each month
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AND THAT'S JUST TO MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS ATTENDING THE PUBIC, I MEAN, THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
East River Whitefish.
I'm sure Hillary's too busy with the campaign to be on hand, in a celebrity status, to hand 'em out with a "Vote Democrat" pamphlet.
Of course, OTOH.
...Chucky's surely available.
99.9% of the condoms will end up being balloons, and not end up being used for their intended purpose.
Bah. It's a fine city, easily one of the best in the world.
Perfectly in keeping with New York's image of decay and decadence.
I'm almost afraid to ask for details....
How touching and romantic!!!
Instead of the Big Apple, should say the Rotten Apple.
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