Newseater - Adult Edition

Over a year after one NYC boutique hotel started offering room service sex toys, the hot new gimmick that hotels are using to gouge you on pointless amenities customize your lodging experience are sex kits that you can buy at the mini-bar, including condoms and massage oils. Heck, just being in a room that doesn’t charge by the hour is enough to get us in the mood. (abcnews.go.com)

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

As usual, athletes in the Olympic Village have access to free condoms during the Games. What’s not as usual is that no one is using them. Maybe they’re all taking that “no sex before competition rule” a little too seriously? We thought it was always have sex before competition rule, but maybe that’s why we don’t have any bronze medals. (avn.com + yahoo.com)

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

While we appreciate the great strides that condom advertising has made over the past several years, we have to say that the image of a pig splooging suntan lotion all over a woman’s bikini-clad back isn’t exactly making us rush out to stock up on Trojans anytime soon. It is, however, reminding us that we haven’t been to nearly enough beach bukkake parties this summer as we usually go to, so maybe it’s not a total wash. (copyranter.blogspot.com)

Original post by Fleshbot

Not so long ago, Trojan ads were relegated to the back pages of men’s magazines, and Dothan, Alabama—you know, the condom capital of the world—wasn’t even mentioned in polite conversation. Today, however, you can’t swing your manlybits without hitting at least half a dozen ads in print, broadcast, and web form. That said, judging from this collection of condom commercials from around the world, we here in the States have got a ways to go if we’re going to catch up with, say, Kenya. Or Belgium. Or, you know, a lot of other places. Pay particular attention to the gadjetastic condom featured in the South African ad, which has apparently had a major impact on HIV seroconversion rates. Do we have that technology yet? After all, they’re way ahead of us on other fronts …

• 12 Countries, 12 Condom Commercials (oobject.com, via Jockohomo)

Original post by sturtle

We all know that condoms save lives—but did you know they can also save the rain forest? Wrap it up, kids: if not for yourselves (or for Chi Chi LaRue), then for Mother Earth. (allheadlinenews.com, happy Earth saver photo, via irelandlogue.com)

Original post by Lux Nightmare