Wellington – Two New Zealand church leaders have attacked a Christmas safe sex advertising campaign that depicts a trio of jeans-wearing men with packets of condoms in their back pockets and which dubs them as the “Three Wise Men”.
The nationwide campaign by the Family Planning Association (FPA) and condom maker Ansell is featured on billboards and the back of buses throughout the country.
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If they were truly wise, they wouldn’t be carrying condoms they would be preaching abstinence and heterosexual monogamy. Oh wait, I guess that is the “old” message.
I get sick every time I have to tell a young woman that her partner’s condoms didn’t protect her against herpes or HPV.
I wish we had remained firm on the concept that some products are too offensive to advertise in public, be they tampons or condoms or adult incontinence products! But now they advertise everything except morality.
Just wait until the local “adult” book store starts advertising on tv. Oy yoy yoy.
The churchmen should counterattack with sign of their own, same picture, but this time dubbed “The Three Con-dumbs.”
No surprise in liberal NZ, known by some as the Sweden of the South. At least that “Immaculate Conception” PETA ad some of you Americans were complaining about was moderately imaginative, ads that denigrate Catholicism are quite common here because we have lost a sense of the importance of the imagery that is exploited.