Fair Sex
This is interesting enough to make my mind make connections. Fair trade condoms… I’ve been asking people for a long time, especially when they complained about their income, if they’d pay more for the products of a company that would pay all of it’s employees fairly. Then, after the nearly inevitable “no”, I’d ask what gives them the right to ask for more pay for themselves in that case.
I still say condoms shouldn’t be needed, though, since there are plenty of effective methods of contraception that don’t block direct contact just where I think it’s most important for the two bodies to be in direct contact and only having sex with people you know well enough to say they don’t pose a risk of STDs should take care of that issue as well, probably even better than a condom since the condom doesn’t stop all possible means of getting infected.
Also the idea of a “feminine design” seems idiotic to me, not to mention that it looks like it uses more packaging than for a regular box of condoms, which obviously does no good for the environment. I think connecting the fair trade concept with such an intimate product would have done well enough in itself and marketing ploys only lower it’s impact, plus that this design might actually make men less likely to buy them, which could hurt their sales more than the potential increased appeal for women could boost them.
Yet, it’s an interesting idea in itself and good to get one thinking…
