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Weekly Links Roundup 3/2/12 - Condoms, Safe Sex, Sex Education

It's Friday again ONE Condoms supporters and when Friday rolls around it's time for ONE's weekly links roundup! Below you'll find news stories from the last week regarding condoms, safe sex, and sex education. Be sure to check out the developments in mandatory condom use for porn actors, QR Condoms, and the "Study Sex College Tour," all of which have been rocking the sexual health world this past week.

If you'd like to share any additional stories we may have missed please leave them in the comments. We'd love to hear what else is going on in spreading safe sex awareness.

Condoms

Condoms In Porn Petition: Los Angeles County Measure Could Make It To November

Condom users make big mistakes that can lead to pregnancy, STDs

Women's Condom Use Drops During 1st Year of College

QR Codes on Condoms: ‘Check-Ins’ Let You Share Your Safe Sex

Money Seems to Matter for Teen Girls, Condoms

China enforces new condom rule

Safe Sex

Zac Efron Earns a Boy Scout Safe Sex Badge

Program Increases Safe Sex Practices in Latina Women

Condom use 101: Basic errors are so common, study finds

Sex Education

Sex education should be a joint responsibility of parents, teachers

'Study Sex College Tour' makes Sex Ed cool, prioritizes pleasure

Utah Will Be Damned if Sex Ed Classes Teach About Anything Sex-y

Seniors and sex: Education important at any age

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Condom Campaign Encourages Users to Share Where They Did It

In today's digital age, you're likely to share a lot about your personal life online already. Now, you can also "check in" when you have sex!

The Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) established a program that allows you to share with the world when and while you're practicing safe sex. The PPGNW, in observation of National Condom Week, distributed 55,000 condoms with QR codes on them. QR are scannable barcodes that take you to the wheredidyouwearit.com (WDYWI), where you can report your protected sex sessions' location. 

PPGNW says "it's like Foursquare for people who don't want a sexually transmitted infection." The Where Did You Wear IT site has an interactive map that pinpoints your exact location of where you did it. It does not share any of your personal information either. The website is searchable by gender, orientation, age, location, relationship status, the reason for using condoms, and the quality of the sex.

The campaign has taken off. People from 48 states and 6 continents have reported where they did it. You don't have to have a QR condom to participate. You can check in directly without a QR specific condom too.

The goal of Where Did You Wear It is clear. It is to promote safe sex and to universalize condom use into common and preferred behavior. According to PPGNW's media coordinator, "we hope the site promotes discussions within relationships about condoms and helps to remove perceived stigmas that some people may have about condom use."

Data also suggests that many people do n't know how to use a condom correcty A Sexual Health journal study released last month found many user errors. The PPGNW campaign looks to spread more information to its user to encourage safe sex behviors. PPGNW is targeting college aged students and millennials who are comfortable with social media and who are proud to share they wore protection.

ONE Condoms supports initiatives that spread safe sex messages and encourage people to make healthy and safe choices when it comes to their sexual health. ONE Condoms want to make condoms as socially acceptable as toothpaste and safer sex as second nature as wearing a seat belt. A portion of every ONE Condoms sale goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

Are you willing to share where you practiced safe sex with the world and spread the safe sex message?

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Condoms : How to Avoid Common User Errors

   Condoms are 99% effective at preventing pregnancies and STI's. This is of course, only if you use them properly. 

50 studies recently gathered 14 countries during the years between 1995 and 2011 have been analyzed by the Kinsey Institute Condom Use Research Team (KICURT). These studies highlight a number of user inflicted condom errors. Some of the mistakes include using a sharp object to open the packet, putting a condom on too late or by taking it off too early.

These studies found that between 17 and 51.1 % of people put a condom on after sex has already begun and between 13.6 and 44.7 % percent said that they take it off too early. Even at the lowest outliers, 13 % of people is still too many in ONE's mind. These studies also found that up to 45.7 percent of men surveyed did not leave space at the tip of the condom for semen.

Studies regarding condom efficacy are commonplace however much attention has not been given to how consistently and properly condoms are used by their user. ONE Condoms wants all of our users to safely and properly know how to use a condom. Included in every ONE Condoms packet are detailed instructions on how to properly use a condom. Here's how to use condoms correctly.

First, handle with care. You should always remember to store condoms in a cool, dry place. Condoms don't like extreme temperatures. Also, do not use if expired. Tear open the package carefully. Do not use your fingernails, teeth or anything that could damage the condom. Make sure to push the condom away from the foil notch when you are going to tear. Once out of the package, roll the condom on with your fingers before any sexual contact. Remember to pinch the receptacle tip of the condom between your thumb and forefinger. This prevents air from becoming trapped at the tip of the condom and allows space for semen. Use the condom during the entirety of your sex session. Using lubricant will reduce the risk of your condom breaking also. Once finished, hold the base of the condom after withdrawal. 

Remember condoms are only effective if used properly. ONE Condoms keeps you protected and informed from harmful and unwanted diseases. Many infections could be avoided by improved user effectiveness. A portion of every ONE Condoms sale goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

Stay safe and use ONE everytime.

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Friday Links Roundup 2/23/12 - Condoms, Safe Sex, Sex Education

      Happy Friday ONE® Condoms enthusiasts. Friday means it's time for our ONE® Condoms links roundup. ONE® is here to keep you in the know with everything related to condoms, safe sex, sex education, and your sexual health. Make sure you check out California counties new mail-order condom program, posted on Wednesday, and the absurdity of responses to a forward thinking Groupon Charity Deal.

Please submit any links in the comments of stories we may have missed this week!

Condoms

Calif counties get mail-order condom program

AHF's 'Condom Nation' Big Rig Tour Rolls Into VEGAS!

Porn Industry May Boogie Out of L.A. Over Condom Law

Condom Use Issues Becoming a Worldwide Concern

Garage Magazine Includes Art Condoms In Its Second Issue

The Condom Dress that was Banned from a Catholic School Art Show

This Is How Condoms Are Made and Tested

Safe Sex

Explicit safe sex pamphlet creates a stir

Groupon Gets Hate Mail Over Charitable Safe-Sex Campaign For Boston LGBT Youth

Shippensburg University's Birth Control Vending Machine Promotes Safe Sex

The 'Safe, Legal, Rare' Illusion

Prevalence of improper condom use a public health issue worldwide

Ricky Martin, Nicki Minaj School Crowd At MAC Viva Glam Party On Safe Sex

Sex Education

Sex ed concerns voiced at forum

40 year old British sex ed book is banned in Malaysia

Sex education expert calls for pornography education in schools

Utah House passes abstinence-only sex education bill

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Controversial Condom Campaign to Deliver Free Condoms to Teens

A new federally funded program is delivering free condoms to teenagers in many California counties. The orders are taken online and delivered straight to the teens' homes in a nondescript envelope.

This free mail-order condom program is supported by the California Department of Public Health and was launched by the non-profit California Family Health Council (CFHC). The initiative, available through teensource.org, provides 12-19 year olds a place to order free condoms online and find locations where they can pick up free condoms from sexual health clinics across the state.

This program is targeting California counties where the number of STD cases are on the rise. Any teen in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Alameda, and Kern counties can receive free condoms through the program.

According to CFHC's vice president of public affairs, Amy Moy, "We can't keep our heads in the sand and pretend there isn't a problem. Research shows barriers such as embarrassment or concerns around confidentiality or affordability," limit teens from buying condoms.

Some parents aren't thrilled with the plan however which sends a package of condoms, lubricant and an educational pamphlet to teens. Some parents argue it encourages the 12-19 year old demographic to engage in intercourse. Repeated studies have shown just by providing teenagers with access to birth control and sex education does not encourage this behavior.

Since its launch on February 14th, over 550 order have been placed online. 

ONE® Condoms is a supporter of comprehensive sex education and positive sex behaviors. ONE® Condoms aims for universal condom use and safe sex practices. A portion of every ONE® Condoms sale goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

Do you think that it's a good idea to provide free mail-order condoms to teenagers? 

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Weekly Links Roundup 2/16/12 - Condoms, Safe Sex, Sex Education

    It's Friday and that means it's time for our ONE® Condoms weekly links roundup. ONE® is here to keep you in the know and up to date with all news relating to condoms, safe sex, and sex education. 

During this #nationalcondomweek, how will you be spreading the safe sex message? Will you be sharing where you wore it during your last sexual experience?

Please submit additional links we might have missed regarding sex and relationships.

Condoms

AIDS activists launch million-condom tour in Venice Beach

NYC's 'Condom Finder' App's Valentine's Upgrade

Are Condoms Restricting the Flow of the Adult Film Industry in Los Angeles?

Condoms trend on Valentine's Day

Free condom program in Keys promotes safe sex

California initiative offers free condoms to reduce transmission of STDs

National Condom Week aims to educate

National Condom Week: 'Where did you wear it?'

'International Condom Day' 2012

Catholics, Condoms and the Separation of Church and State

Safe Sex

Group opens dialogue to recognize safe sex methods

New safe sex campaign aims to lower Nunavik's “alarming” STI rates

National Condom Day encourages safe sex

Thai NGO advocates safe sex in Bangkok red-light districts

Truckers are savvy about safe sex

Irish students fail to grasp safe sex message according to new SHAG week survey

'Tekkin Charge' on Valentine's Day

Sex Education

Does sex ed keep girls from becoming teen moms?

Sex education: far from decent

Let Utah voters, not lawmakers, decide on sex education for their kids

City sex education text targets families

Teachers urged to address porn factor

Let's talk about sex

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Condom Designs by Keith Herring in Garage Magazine

     A recent issue in Garage Magazine, an art and culture publication, is devoted to the theme of sex and relationships. Among the topics of the legalization of gay marriage, the development of fertilization treatments, and internet dating, is a section of artist designed condoms. 

The featured artists behind the condom illustrations are none other than Keith Herring, Mat Collishaw, Tim Noble, and Sue Webster. We are particularly intrigued by Keith Herring's as he never ceases to fail in creating relatable and interesting graphics. The condoms are available in every copy of the magazine.

ONE® Condoms supports all forms of self-expression, particularly that which spreads messages of safe sex and universal condom use. ONE® Condoms feature more than 200 different designs, with many created by customers like you. Every year we're looking for new designs for our next series of condoms. We want your help in creating the next generation of ONE® Condoms through our foil wrapper competition.

You can submit your own ONE® Condoms designs through our design contest here. So express yourself. Push the envelope and show us what you've got!

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Happy National Condom Day and Valentine's Day!

    Happy Valentine's Day to everyone and more importantly happy National Condom Day! National Condom Day comes at an ideal time to encourage condom use when love and passion is in the air. National Condom Day serves to remind people of the risks associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unplanned pregnancies and to take necessary precautions by practicing safe sex. By taking responsibility of your sexual health and using a condom every time during sex, you will keep yourself protected from unwanted and harmful diseases.

National Condom Day and National Condom Week aim to make the conversation of condom use more comfortable for people to talk about and address the misinformation associated with condom use. ONE Condoms aims to make condoms as socially acceptable as toothpaste and safer sex as second nature as wearing a seatbelt.

A Planned Parenthood in the Northwest has just launch a new website called "WhereDidYouWearIt.com" for Condom Week. This site offers condom users a chance to share their location of the most recent sexual encounters, the reason they used condoms, and how good the sex was. The location is not saved or shared with anyone publicly. 

And there's a lot of sharing to be done on this National Condom Day. It is reported that approximately 87 condoms are used every second in America on Valentine's Day.

ONE Condoms aims for the universal practice of condom use and for everyone to engage in safe sex behaviors. A portion of every ONE Condoms sales goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

Would you share your secret location and tell the site why you used a condom? Also, how do you plan on staying safe this national condom day / valentine's day?

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Feb 13 is International Condom Day kicking off National Condom Week Feb 14 - 21

To kick off the informal holiday of International Condom Day, in conjunction with Valentine's Day tomorrow, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the largest global AIDS organization, will be launching its "Condom-Nation" tour. This tour will consist of a groundbreaking 6 month long 20-state big rig truck tour that will stop in various cities handing out millions of free condoms and safe sex information kits. 

The president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein, says that "Condom Nation is a serious, yet somewhat whimsical and creative effort by AIDS Healthcare Foundation to help promote increased condom use and to help make condoms more accessible and affordable." Currently, the CDC reports that there are roughly 1.1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV/AIDS and an estimated 20% of these people do not know they're infected. The U.S. spends approximately $17 billion in HIV/STD health care costs.

The foundations hope is to raise awareness and spark conversations about the importance of condoms and safer sex behaviors. Condom Nation's goals are to:

Educate and raise awareness about safe sex practices

Promote the use of condoms through education and advertising

Events in over 30 cities in 15 countries around the wold will have free condom distribution, HIV testing, and safer sex awareness events hosted by AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

ONE® Condoms is a supporter of universal access and use of condoms for everyone. ONE® donates a portion of every sale to HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

How will you be celebrating International Condom Day?

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Win a 40 Pack of ONE's® New Tantric Pleasures Condoms

                          Valentine's Day mix challenge

To celebrate Valentine's Day, 8tracks.com and ONE® wants you to make us a sweet, sexy mix to share with all the lovers out there.

So how do I enter?

Just sign up for 8tracks, create a mix with 8 or more songs and cover art, then tag it with "Valentine's Day"*. The 3 mixes with the most Facebook likes published between the contest start and end dates will win prizes from ONE®.

*These variations are also allowed: "valentines day", "valentinesday", "valentine's", "valentines", "valentine".

What kind of prizes?

Tantric Pleasures™ condoms from ONE®, that's what! A big 40 pack of them, which should get you through the weekend safe and sound.

The competition starts on at 12:01 am PST on February 7, 2012 and closes at 12:01am PST on February 15, 2012, so get mixing!

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Weekly Links Roundup 2/10/12 - Condoms, Safe Sex, Sex Education

            Hello ONE® Condoms enthusiasts! Happy Friday! ONE's goal is to keep protected with everything related to your sexual health, from condoms to safe sex to sex education . As you make your Valentine's Day preparations this upcoming week, don't forget to practice safe sex and remember to think with your head; the one on your shoulders that is!

Please submit any other interesting links we may have missed as well!

Condoms

Obama's church-state spin: free condoms vs. Catholic dogma

Play it safe with Condoms

Mitt Romney Is Clearly Winning -- In the Condom Category

Condoms are useful for more than pregnancy prevention

Here's What Porn Stars Say About New Law Forcing Them To Use Condoms

College Vending Machine Dispenses Contraceptives

Fake Pricey Louis Vuitton Condoms Go Viral Online

Safe Sex

Practice safe sex in the month of love

Party to celebrate stupid love, safe sex

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Rise Among Baby Boomers: How To Practice Safer Sex

Say 'Welcome Back' To Your Sex Life

QR Code Condoms Promote Safe Sex

Safe Sex AIDS Campaign Ads Imitating Facebook Places

Sex Education

Sex Education Less Effective in Conservative States

New sexuality education standards in U.S. make history

Proposed law would change Utah's health and sex education classes

'Are You in the Know?' Guttmacher Institute releases new sex ed resource guide

The sexualization of children and what schools can do about it

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Randi Zuckerberg Takes on AIDS with Social Media

         Your social media feeds are most likely filled with messages about #superbowl, #tombrady, or #justinbieber, but soon it might be filled with messages about AIDS in Africa.

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook's former director of marketing, recently launched a new "social media syndicate" intended to push out important messages to raise social issue awareness. She plans on coordinating with the "1,000 most influential individual publishers" to start caring more about social issues to solve world problems, Zukerberg said. R to Z Media's goal is to "help provide a structure for passionate social changers to unite them." 

The company's first mission is to end the fight of mother-to-child AIDS transmission by 2015. This goal aligns with many other organizations who are also committed to making this goal a reality. With over 400,000 babies are born with AIDS every year, this seems to be a lofty goal. However, UN experts say this is possible if governments (mostly in Africa, businesses, and non-governmental organizations work on prevention and distribution.

R to Z aims to leverage influential social media users to focus on the same issue at the same time. Zuckerberg states that when "you have a lot of different people who stand for different causes, but not in a unified manner," this weakens the impact of the messages.

By following these influencers' messages, it puts pressure on people to act on certain causes. The company will ultimately serve as a way to raise funds for awareness to certain causes. Take the recent SOPA anti-piracy bill put into effect. User generated social media outcry was a unified example of coordinated messaging from millions of people that had great impact. The tweets you send can help make it feel as if you've participated in making social change happen. However, just by tweeting and facebooking, this will not ultimately solve all of the world's problems. It's necessary to take physical action as well.

ONE® Condoms encourages making a difference in your community by spreading the universal practice of safe sex message. ONE® is also committed to eliminating the AIDS virus. A portion of every ONE® Condoms sale goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

Would you help spread the message of certain unified causes to make a more drastic impact?

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Love's Impact on Your Health

              Valentine's day just around the corner. But before you consider it a Hallmark Holiday, consider some real science behind these feelings of love and romance.

U.S. researchers have conducted many small studies recently presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology investigating love. One study from Florida State University found that love brings out the competitive side in people. The stronger the feelings of romantic love in a partnership, the more likely someone is to engage in aggressive behavior towards his partner's suitor. 

Contrary to popular belief, according to an MIT research examining the first "I love you" in a relationship, women are not the first to confess love in a relationship. It's been found that men confess love first more often than women do. Saying "I love you" makes the man feel happiest if the confession occurs before the couple has sex and it makes the woman happiest when the confession happens after sex. 

In another study, 34 couples who tested for stress levels before a 7 day separation and after the separation. Couples that were physically separated had higher levels of cortisol (a high stress hormone) and had worse sleep than when the couple was together. "The more one's partner was likely to fall asleep after sex, the stronger the desire for bonding," according to sexual health researcher Daniel Kruger. It is a sign that you and your partner have a strong and meaningful relationship.

Being in a deep intimate relationship has also been shown to increase life span. This research helps solidify that romantic ties are beneficial for our longterm health.

ONE Condoms supports healthy relationships that practice safe and responsible decision making including safe sex. This Valentine's season, ONE® Condoms urges everyone to make informed sexual health decisions to prevent the spread of harmful diseases.

Do you personally believe that an intimate relationship helps your overall health and wellness? Also, who said "I love you" first in one of your relationships?

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Weekly Links Roundup 2/3/12 - Condoms, Safe Sex, Sex Education

Today is Friday and that means it's time for our weekly links roundup. ONE Condoms is here to bring you the most up to date information on everything related to condoms, safe sex, and sex education. A lot happened this week from NYC's mandatory sex education classes taking effect to "Sex Ed Vincent" leaving SNL.

If you have any articles or stories that we missed please submit them in to us!

Condoms

The Condom's Cousins

SAfrica recalls 1.35 million condoms

Porn And Condoms: How Will The New Law Impact The Industry?

13-year-olds given iPhone app to trace free condoms

Condoms and Cocoa raises for AIDS

Safe Sex

Why Safe Sex Is Easier Said Than Done

"You Are Worth Keeping Safe": Condoms, Teenagers and the Media

Nepal's first sex shop a Sweet Secret

Teens Having Sex At Home: Should Parents Allow It or Forbid It?

Why You Should Have More Sex for Heart Health

Gearing up for V Day: Safe sex is the best sex

Could Ultrasound Be the Next Male Contraceptive?

Sex Education

New Sex Education Mandate Taking Effect

Soccer and sex ed lift Haitian girls

Report Suggests Sex Education For Elementary School Students

'Infinite Swirl': Honoring SNL's Paul Brittain and 'Sex' Ed Vincent

Why teens should read raunchy novels and straight-up smut

Should teens read porn as part of their sex education

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NYC Sex Education Mandate Taking Effect

Announced in August 2011, New York City has mandated lessons on sexual health and sex education starting today. Public middle schools and high schools are now required to introduce sex education lessons into health classes.

At least one semester of health education is required in 6th or 7th grade and then again in 9th or 10th grade. Previously, the health classes did not include sex education. This has now changed.

What will be taught includes physiology, the understanding of male and female reproductive systems, recognizing healthy and unhealthy relationships, sexuality and sexual identity, handling unwanted sexual advantages, contraception methods, and how to prevent unwanted STD's.

The NYC Department of education has implemented a "research-based sex risk reduction curriculum" called "Reducing the Risk". Research has shown that this helps to increase the use of contraception among teens and increase parent-child communication about contraception. It emphasizes that students should use protection consistently and correctly when they become sexually active.

Students learn to avoid high risk situations and recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships by role-playing situations on resisting pressure to have sex. This has proven to have direct results of safe sex behavior.

The sex education mandate takes effect today in NYC high schools and middle schools.

ONE® Condoms supports sex positive decision making and increased condom use to eliminate the spread of diseases. A portion of every ONE® Condoms sale goes towards HIV/AIDS prevention efforts at home and abroad.

What do you think of NYC's new mandate on sex education?

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Weekly Links Roundup 1/26/12 - Safe Sex, Condoms, Sex Education

Happy Friday ONE condom enthusiasts! Today we're here to cover safe sex, sex education, relationship advice, and condoms in the news. Our goal is to keep you up to date on anything sex related this past week. Be sure to check out the articles on the fantastic groundbreaking law requiring condom use in porn!

Safe Sex

More Americans practicing safe sex, CDC reports

'Safe sex is great sex'

TSG And GummiLove Promote Safe Sex

Do sex and golf have a connection?

Need To Make Teenagers Aware of the Benefits of Safe Sex

New Safe-Sex Porn Law Could Cost Los Angeles Billions

Safe sex: Study clears sex for most stable heart patients

Condoms

Landmark condom law for porn filming signed by LA mayor

'Condom use drops in TN among high risk groups'

Ad Campaign Fights Dispensing Condoms In School: Board Votes Tonight

National Condom Week is Feb. 14-21

Rates of Condom and Non-Condom-Based Anal Intercourse Practices

Ron Jeremy Reacts To LA's Condoms In Porn Ordinance

Sex Education

Good sex education is not about preaching abstinence

Controversial sex-ed game featuring Sperminator gets new version

New sex education guidance 'startling,' HASD super says

Sex Education: The Great Outdoors Edition

Sex Ed: A Teen's Take On the Topic, and Teen Pregnancy

Santorum fumbles the sex-education football

Single-sex public education: Let the experiment continue?

The Swedish Erotica Collection: Alienation, Education and Morality

Do you have any links that weren't included here that you could share with us from the past week?