Amorous Swedes to Get Emergency Condom Deliveries
Tue Jun 1, 2004 10:50 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5311712 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish aid organization will roll out a new line of defense to the country's emergency services next week -- the condom ambulance.
From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics.
"We need to increase the usage of condoms," said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education, the non-governmental organization behind the initiative. "It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases."
The ambulances will operate in Stockholm and the southern cities of Malmo and Gothenberg. The service, aimed at young people, will run until June 25 and be available between four in the afternoon and nine at night.
A packet of 10 condoms will cost 50 crowns ($6.72), less than they cost on average in the shops.
The incidence of sexually transmitted disease is increasing rapidly in Sweden and not enough young people use condoms, Osvald said.
"We need to change attitudes to condoms," he said. "If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it."
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― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
anyway i approve and this is yet another reason why i'm becoming more and more convinced that scandinavia is where it's at right now.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)
I suppose there will be a lot of people calling, just for the conspicuity of having a giant condom-mobile seen to pull up at your house.
― el Huckle-huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
You kidding? Best idea ever. Not even laziness will be excuse enough not to slip one on.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)
oh, ive been to that cabbages & condoms - the one in bangkok though. the food isn't bad, and after your spring rolls and green curry, you can go upstairs to get a sex-change (really)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)
whoe, phil...is that where you met your sugar daddy?
― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)
i went there with two thai lesbians, actually.
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)