NYC celebrates Valentine's Day with rampant condom promotion

A reminder of the challenges facing Christian love and sexuality in a militantly secular society.

The Associated Press reports:

The official New York City condom has a different look and a sexy new slogan: New Yorkers are being encouraged to "get some" on Valentine's Day.

Street teams will be handing out the free condoms at busy hubs around the city on Thursday, including Times Square, Wall Street and near City Hall.

And an ad campaign on television, radio and subways and buses will soon begin, featuring the catch phrase.

NYC's Catholic leaders, the article concludes, have been "angered " by such tactics, and claimed that the city's administration was "blanketing ... neighborhoods with condoms." More like carpet-bombing.

What do I mean?

You can watch the TV ads here. Below is a sample advertisement (with suitably androgynous models):

NYC has distributed more than 36 million condoms since first introducing it last Valentine's Day.

That's alot of tax-payer dollars.

Because I try to keep AmP a youth-accessible blog, I won't link to the NYC's "condom how-to" page. I will reproduce for illustrative purposes, however, the NYC website's advice to "use a new condom with each new partner" and that step four of using a condom properly is to "Enjoy each other."

What an enlightened vision of human sexuality. I'm glad our local government is showing us the way.