Condom Kingdom

OMG - it has been discovered that a factory in China has being producing fake condoms! Police are now looking for over a million knock-off prophylactics produced by an illegal factory in central Hunan province, reported by The Times of London.

The condoms produced provide basically zero protection for pregnancy and disease.

When police raided the factory they found bare-chested employees using vegetable oil to lubricate the condoms and then putting them into fiber bags with no sterilization in place.  Four men have been arrested.  Using vegetable oil would quickly weaken the condom.

Since March the factory has turned out more than two million condoms labeled as “Jisson,Durex. Rough Rider, Six Sense and Love Card.”

Many of these brands could be distributed in Hotels, especially throughout China which is common practice by Chinese hotels.  If you see these brands on your travels you should avoid these at all costs.

Forward this news onto anyone you know who will be traveling abroad.

BE SAFE!

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/11/11/Counterfeit-condoms-a-problem-in-China/UPI-19371257953421/

Australian GPs have started a world-first pilot program offering chlamydia testing to patients between the ages of 16 and 29, regardless of their symptoms or sexual history.

Last year their were 70,000 reported cases of STIs in Australia, up 13% from the previous year, and three-quarters of known cases are in people aged 15 - 29.

In a recent study it has found that most Americans remain sexually active into their 60s, and nearly half continue to have sex regularly into their early 70s, researchers are reporting today as a result of the most comprehensive national survey to date of sexual behavior among older adults.

But many older people also report struggling with sexual problems, like reduced desire and erectile difficulties, the survey found.

The new report, appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine, was based on interviews with more than 3,000 Americans, 57 to 85 years old, who gave detailed descriptions of their sexual activities.

It found that for varied reasons, women were significantly less likely than men to report being sexually active from age 57 on. Women were more often without a partner, for example, and were more likely to say they no longer derived much pleasure from sex.

Experts said that the new survey provided the first clear and complete picture of sexuality in later life and that it should give older adults a sense of where they stand compared with their peers. Researchers have done previous surveys of sexual activity among older people, but those studies were of patients or other groups who were not nationally representative.

It could be said that a fantasy for ’some’ men is to have more then one girlfriend.  Boys read this and be careful!
A married Wisconsin man who thought he was going to meet up with one of his lovers at a motel found four of the women in his life waiting for him there, three of whom he had been sleeping with, and one of whom was his wife. Police reported the four woman were not happy!

The four women allegedly beat the man, and one of them used Krazy Glue to stick his penis to his stomach, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune:

LOS ANGELES — The latest celebrity sex tape features a threesome of naked celebs — “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane, his wife, actress and model Rebecca Gayheart and former Miss Teen USA and Playboy model Kari Ann Peniche.First reported by Gawker.com, and leaked by an unknown source, the 12-minute sex tape shows the apparently inebriated threesome (Gayheart says she needs to lay down because she’s so high) frolicking in Peniche’s apartment discussing what their porn names would be. Dane’s: Tuff Hedemen.

The girls disrobe and jump into the Jacuzzi, passing the camera to Dane to keep filming. The edited video on Gawker shows Gayheart and Peniche topless.

A source told Gawker that former Miss Teen USA turned Playboy model Peniche was working as a Hollywood madam and it was the Hollywood Vice Squad that got a hold of Peniche’s client list and this sex tape that she had subsequently been showing to friends.

Celebrity sex tape broker Kevin Blatt doesn’t know who leaked the footage, but he hypothesized their motive.

“It’s a real shame this tape leaked the way it did,” Blatt told XBIZ. “I believe it was someone who wanted to get even with Rebecca. Releasing this tape with no ability to profit from it is the sign of a junkie.”

According to TMZ.com, Dane and Gayheart have retained the services of noted Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer to prosecute sites that publish the leaked footage. TMZ reports that Peniche denied to Singer that she was the one that leaked the video.

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK?

STOCKHOLM — Proper condom use, sex positions and same-sex relationships are all part of the curriculum for 14-year-old students in Swedish high schools. But many Muslim immigrants, who require their daughters and wives to wear head scarves to ensure modesty, have prevented their children from attending the classes.

…. What a great idea Mr & Misses Muslim.  The next problem your children will be dealing with is an unwanted pregnancy or STD.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin brothel has come up with a novel way to negate the impact of the global economic crisis and target a new group of customers at the same time — offering a discount to patrons who arrive on bicycles.

“The recession has hit our industry hard,” said Thomas Goetz, owner of the “Maison d’envie” brothel.

“Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people,” he added. “It’s good for business, it’s good for the environment — and it’s good for the girls.”

Customers who arrive on bicycle or who can prove they took public transportation get a 5-euro (4 pounds) discount from the usual 70-euro ($100) fee for 45 minute sessions, Goetz told Reuters. He said the environmentally friendly offer was working.

“We have around 3-5 new customers coming in daily to take advantage of the discount,” he said, adding the green rebate has helped alleviate traffic and parking congestion in the neighbourhood.

Germany is one of the few countries in the world where prostitution is legal. It has about 400,000 prostitutes who, since 2002, have been allowed to enter formal labour contracts.

(Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

No one likes reading much about the serious side of sex and the possible implications that come with it.  And unfortunately all STD’s are on the rise again.  No one really want to wear a condom, for many and various reasons, which everyone can understand.  However, we can say with 100% certainity that in the ‘LIKELY’ event you do end up with a STD like Herpes, you will wish over and over that you go back in time and do things a little differently.  Read on if you are smart.

MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) — People who use condoms regularly can reduce their risk of getting genital herpes by 30 percent, a new study finds.

The herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) causes genital herpes, which is a chronic, lifelong viral infection. Although studies have found that regular condom use reduces the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, whether they prevent the transmission of HSV-2 has been less certain, the researchers noted.

“Condoms work for herpes,” said study author Emily T. Martin, a postdoctoral fellow with the Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute.

“Even though the decrease is smaller than you would see with some other STDs, the evidence from previous studies has been unclear whether using a condom to prevent getting herpes was going to be effective, but this shows that it is,” she said.

Using condoms reduces herpes transmission by only 30 percent because, unlike other STDs, herpes is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, Martin explained.

“Transmission has a lot to do with where the virus is being shed at the time,” she said. “If someone with herpes is shedding virus for an area that is not covered by a condom, we speculate the virus will spread whether or not they are using a condom.”

The study is published in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

For the study, Martin’s team looked at data from six HSV-2 studies that dealt with the effectiveness of condoms in preventing herpes. The studies included 5,384 men and women who did not have herpes when the studies began.

During the follow-up period, which ranged from 12 to 19 months, 415 people had contracted the herpes virus. But people who used condoms 100 percent of the time reduced the risk of catching the virus by 30 percent, the researchers found.

In addition, the risk of getting herpes was reduced 7 percent “every additional 25 percent of the time that condoms were used during anal or vaginal sex,” the researchers wrote.

The risk of getting herpes increased with the frequency of unprotected sex, and there was no significant difference between men and women in the effectiveness of condoms in preventing herpes transmission, they add.

Martin said using a condom not only reduces the odds of getting herpes, but of other STDs as well. “If you don’t know the STD status of your partner, a condom is always a good idea,” she said.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, director of STD Prevention and Control Services at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said the study provides more evidence that condoms work.

“We know condoms can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections like HIV, herpes, warts, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis, but it’s always been hard to show that in research studies,” Klausner said.

“If condoms can hold air and water, I never understood why folks thought they would not prevent the spread of germs, which are much, much larger than air or water molecules,” he said.

Klausner said that the study provides scientific evidence that condoms work and should help in efforts to get condoms into the hands of sexually active teenagers and adults.