Minnesota State Fair to feature condoms on a stick
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm
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As with every year, the 2011 Minnesota State Fair will feature plenty of things on sticks — mainly food items — but one object may stand out: Condoms. And they’re being marketed to grandmothers. It’s the work of Pro-Choice Resources, a group that provides reproductive health services and has gone to the fair for 38 years to encourage families to have open and honest discussions of sexual health.
The group says that grandmothers comprise the bulk of the visitors to their booth.
“It’s a smart and fun way to start a conversation about sex with the grandchildren and children in our lives and let them know we care about their relationships and safety,” said Karen Law, the group’s executive director. “Every year some of the same grandmothers stop by our booth just to get condoms-on-a-stick. They make for wildly popular and unusual items in care packages.”
The group plans to hand out 7,000 of the condoms on a stick.
Minnesota saw a large increase in sexually transmitted diseases in 2010, up 5 percent over 2009. Chlamydia is a large driver in the epidemic which has hit rural, poor and minority communities the hardest.
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Comment posted August 26, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
Um… don’t condoms *belong* on a stick?
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…sorry, it had to be said.
Comment posted August 27, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
I’d prefer such things not be at a “family” type event such as the fair. Have a booth if you must but chilrden are bombarded enough with sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, GLBT, gay, gay, gay, sex, sex, sex, gay, GLBT, sex, sex and more sex already. I think we can have one event that we can skip the sex talk. It would be refreshing.
Comment posted August 28, 2011 @ 7:06 am
Inreality,
Maybe if the religious right, prudes and homophobes would just stop being obsessed about everybody else’s sex life and wanting to control it by eliminating decent sex ed, control womens sexuality by treating birth control as something bad, trying to convert gays to straight and pretending that their own side does not have the same mix of sexual desires, it could just fade into being part of normal, like it is in Europe. Sexuality is part of being human, grow up at accept it.
Comment posted August 28, 2011 @ 7:09 pm
@ inreality
how about the millions of flyers on religion and how Jesus will save you? or bibles being given out every turn you go? Or how many pro life billboards there are? or the endless tries of indoctrination the religious right tries to do on our children!
Its all bible this, and jesus will save you if you repent this, and you are doing this wrong and will go to hell, and you must live the way I do or else, or stop being who you are cause it disagrees with my opinions…..
Having Bradlee Dean at the fair is far more dangerous to a childs ear than the sight of a condom on a stick.
Comment posted August 28, 2011 @ 8:59 pm
I live in Indiana. At our state fair, if you can deep fry it, we’re good with it.
Comment posted August 29, 2011 @ 9:26 am
Hey Marie,
I watched part of Deans show at the last two fairs. Two years ago, I think, he was still on KKMS am 980 and there about 4 people up close watching and a few of us at the all you can drink milk booth watching from across the street. It was wonderfully pathetic in terms of audience. Last year he was at the WWTC am 1280 booth and had a bigger crowd, more likely due to WWTC being more political than KKMS. HIs groups booth at the fair did have some traffic, but not mobs of people.
Comment posted August 29, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
It makes me shudder to think that he dub’s himself a “youth minister”. I can almost deal with the snake oil salesmen likes of the extremest religious agenda crowd, but It hurts when it comes the harm and destruction these people can do when they try to indoctrinate children into their choice of hatred and lifestyle.
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