Condoms

If you decide to vacation in Israel, and you are the swinger, all I can say is to be very careful. Being a very secular country, combined with a continuous threat of doom resting over the public's head, it's a very sexually promiscuous country. That's all fine, but if you go there, be sure to be safe, they don't seem to.

I did, after its while, see the first "use a condom" commercials in Israel...It goes about the matter in a very round about way. You see people sitting at a boss stop...then it focuses on one of them, then new people sit down...this goes on, then focuses in again, this happens a few times, and the camera focuses in with a pink filter, as if a giant condom was covering them. There's good music in the background, and it's very MTVesque. It's just that the message doesn't quite seem to come through. There's another one, where you see people remembering, right before they go out, and then going to get their condoms off their various desks.

That's a bit more effective, but still, I don't think the message is being reached. I saw it pointed out first, in a Sam Orbaum column in the Jerusalem Post. After going to great depths to explain that he didn't use them, (That wasn't a message against condoms. A guy whose wife has terminal cancer has reason to avoid condoms.) he mentioned the deal that he saw, where you buy a pack of condoms, and got a free roll of film. The majority of his column mentioned the absurdity of this, though ironically, he didn't mention either that perhaps Polaroid film would have been better, or the obvious jokes with film and condoms. (Capture the moment.)

So, the question is, what's worse, giving them away for free like we do here, or giving you incentives to buy them? Incentive is worse. Which is it that is not appealing enough, using the condom for the action involved, or the need to save your life?

Doesn't matter, their giveaways continue. First, you bought the condom pack, and attached was a free CD. Seeing that one was Aqua, and a different one had Robbie Williams, I, were I to need them, would reconsider purchasing the prophylactic.

That offer expired, and they needed a new campaign. In the store, I saw this huge carton of various chocolates, and the sign said that they were only one shekel, so I picked up a few. I went to pay, only to be explained by the clerk that the chocolates were a shekel, iff you buy the pack of condoms.

At this point, this isn't a marital aid, or a life saving device, it's a bloody breakfast cereal, with free prizes, bright colors, and probably has a sugary coating anyway. The next step, of course, would then be to have giant animated cartoons commercials with superheroes for condoms, movie tie-ins for condoms, and celebrity sponsors on the packages, with action figures available independent of the cereal.

Oh wait...we already have them in this country...

Get me outa here!!!

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