Condoms: definitely NOT for preventing pregnancy!

A new Trojan Condoms ad promoting carrying condoms as part of being responsible (“Evolve. Use a condom every time.”) was recently rejected by both CBS and Fox. Why? Well, I'm glad you asked! As discussed in the New York Times, the two networks were just looking out for the moral sensibilities of you and me:

"...Fox and CBS both rejected the commercial. Both had accepted Trojan’s previous campaign, which urged condom use because of the possibility that a partner might be H.I.V.-positive, perhaps unknowingly. A 2001 report about condom advertising by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that, “Some networks draw a strong line between messages about disease prevention — which may be allowed — and those about pregnancy prevention, which may be considered controversial for religious and moral reasons.”

Representatives for both Fox and CBS confirmed that they had refused the ads, but declined to comment further.

In a written response to Trojan, though, Fox said that it had rejected the spot because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.”

In its rejection, CBS wrote, “while we understand and appreciate the humor of this [ad], we do not find it appropriate for our network even with late-night-only restrictions.”

Because now it's immoral not only to use emergency contraception or seek an abortion, but...to prevent pregnancy?

I would love to sit down with one of the people responsible for this decision and learn more about their idealized vision for America and the world. No pre-marital sex, none of that homo stuff, no abortions, and....ceaseless childbearing?

America, you just had to pull this shit a month before I come home. Don't you realize that if you keep acting up all the other countries are just going to laugh at you?

(Head explodes)

P.S. check out Trojan's site, which addresses America's squeamishness around the sex issue and our embarrassingly high rates of teen pregnancy and STD infection as compared to other Western nations.