Japanese condom-makers hope for rise in sales from 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Japanese condom-makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, seeing a golden opportunity to showcase their world-record ultrathin products. For years, hundreds of thousands of condoms have been distributed for free to competitors at Olympic Games in a bid to encourage ...
'Sailor Moon' condoms combat syphilis but heroine's fans flustered by age issue
The superheroine from the popular manga and anime series "Sailor Moon" has emerged once again to fight another evil — syphilis. As a part of its campaign to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases, the health ministry will distribute 60,000 condoms wrapped in pink, heart-shaped ...
Porn ranks appeal to California health officials not to require condoms
Scores of porn actors, writers, directors and producers pleaded with state officials Thursday not to make them use condoms in films, saying such a move would criminalize and perhaps destroy their multibillion-dollar industry. The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health's Standards Board was scheduled ...
China's foreign condom frenzy gives low-libido Japan an economic boost
In Japan, sex-drives have plunged so low that young, libido-challenged men are sometimes referred to as soshokukei danshi, or herbivore men. Think that's harsh, then consider local condom maker Sagami Rubber Industries Co., battling a shrinking, aging and now increasingly frigid Japanese clientele. It's no ...
Woman leads sex education drive to enlighten clueless youths
Asuka Someya discovered she was pregnant at the age of 20 when she was a university student. Having had no courage to raise the baby alone or give up on her future plans, she decided to abort it. "That's the dilemma that mostly women face and ...
A Los Angeles County ordinance requiring actors in pornographic films to use condoms does not violate the porn industry's First Amendment rights of free expression, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The decision from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Once a model in HIV fight, Uganda AIDS cases surging again, spurring activist on
The dreadlocked 26-year-old, a reformed thief and onetime drug peddler, Hood Katende is now an anti-AIDS activist respected in his Kampala slum. He urges young men to wear condoms if they can't avoid premarital sex and encourages teenage girls to reject the sexual advances ...
