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Nas' Daughter Destiny Flaunts Box Of Condoms She Keeps By Bedside

Hip-Hop Wired — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:58:36 +0000

Nas surely does not approve. Bossip spotted Destiny Jones, daughter of Nas and Carmen Bryan, on Twitter showing off her collection of condoms for the masses, that follow her at least. Cue up #10 on Esco's It Was Written album.

That's "Black Girl Lost" for the uninitiated. Also, she has named her first car "cocaine." Pray for Destiny Jones.

See How Condoms Are Tested [Video]

Michael Ice-Blue Harris — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:15:04 +0000

How Are Condoms Tested

December is AIDS Awareness Month.

Though everyone is busy with the Holiday season, we cannot forget to continue to spread awareness and promote a healthy sexual lifestyle.

Have you ever wondered how condoms are tested?

Or, perhaps you've pondered what it would be like to be the actual condom tester?

Peep the video and the picts as LifeStyles condoms shows with their new video, labor intensive doesn't begin to describe this thorough, hands-on process…

Much like cars are crash tested, condoms are taken through rigorous testing to ensure their dependability and safety including air inflation tests, water tests and electronic testing procedures that detect microscopic defects not visible to the human eye.

In fact, during the air inflation tests to gauge condom strength, condoms are inflated with air until they reach three feet high and one foot wide!

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Free Condoms To Be Given To Massachusetts First Graders

Danielle Canada — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:12:17 +0000

Some Provincetown, Massachusetts parents are outraged now that a school superintendent has announced plans to make condoms available to students as young as those in the first grade.

The decision was made by Superintendent Beth Singer who says that students need to be informed and better prepared.
She tells the Boston Herald,

“They are children. They often act without information - on assumption, things they've heard, rumor, myth. I think information is always important for kids.

Singer also adds,

“The school will not honor parents' requests that their children not receive the prophylactic.”

The new policy will begin in September and students interested in the free condoms will be required to have a “heart-to-heart” with a counselor which will include a talk about abstinence before being given one.

The superintendent was also backed by her Chairman Peter Grosso who told The Herald,

“The thing is, sexual activity starts younger and younger. We don't know what age that is. So we just said, ‘We'll make it available to all of them.' We didn't want to pick an age, and I really don't believe we're going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter.”

The new policy reportedly comes from a recommendation by the town's health advisory committee and the decision was unanimously backed by the school board on June 10^th.

New, Cheaper Female Condoms Now Available In U.S.

dummyhhwmadamtoussaint — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:12:07 +0000

The Female Health Company (FHC) announced that its second-generation FC2 Female Condom® is now available for purchase in the United States. The condom received regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration in March as an HIV prevention method.

The new condoms will be 30% cheaper than its predecessor and are supposed to be more user friendly. FHC hopes this help in the fight against the global HIV epidemic and other sexually transmitted diseases.

"America's HIV epidemic isn't going away. In fact, it's getting worse, and African American and Latino women are disproportionately impacted... It's time to provide women in heavily impacted communities with expanded access to affordable women-controlled options, and the female condom becomes that choice. Women will use it if they have it" -- Dazon Dixon Diallo, Founder and President of SisterLove, a grassroots service organization that supports HIV/AIDS prevention and women's reproductive health programs in the Atlanta, Georgia.

According to FHC 7 of the top 10 states ranked by the rate of AIDS cases are in the U.S. South.

The new female condom is synthetic rubber rather than polyurethane, allowing for a less costly manufacturing process and quieter sound that is less likely to disrupt the intimate act. Also there are hopes the new price will make it more attractive to health organizations for distribution.

While the female condom is not popular in the Untied States it is used widely in other countries, especially those countries that are hard hit by the HIV epidemic. It is seen as a tool to empower women and protect them even when their male partners will not.

"We developed the female condom to provide women with access to HIV prevention that they can initiate. We know that women and men practice safer sex when they have access to more prevention methods, and we believe that access to the female condom can help millions of American women negotiate safer sex with their partners." --Mary Ann Leeper, FHC's senior strategic adviser.

For now the second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available to health organizations in the U.S. and will be available at Washington, D.C.-area CVS stores in December. FHC is working on marketing and partnerships to make the product more widely available in stores.