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Condoms: This way lies madness!

By Amy Benfer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

A Scottish researcher makes the scientific argument for bareback

Rubbers for the Pope!

By Sarah Hepola — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Facebooks groups protest the pontiff's recent statements on condoms with an old-fashioned gimmick.

Save the Alabama condom!

By Andrew Leonard — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

A sexy tale of free trade, stimulus politics, cheap Chinese prophylactics and imperiled American jobs. With guest appearances from Rush, Leno and impotent Republican senators.

My fiancé put hot sauce in his used condoms

By Cary Tennis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

He heard on the radio that scheming women will do anything to get pregnant.

Want stimulation? Try the condom economy

By Andrew Leonard — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Economists must be pleased. A boom in safe sex is a clearly rational response to current market conditions.

Clearasil condoms?

By Catherine Price — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Cambodian women find an unexpected use for the lubricant.

Planned Parenthood's condoms for women

By Sarah Hepola — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Proper Attire is a brand designed with "sexually active, stylish women in mind."

STI 911

By Lynn Harris — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

CDC: One in four teens has a sexually transmitted infection. Someone's not giving them the 411.

Quote of the Day: Jenna Bush on condoms

By Tracy Clark-Flory — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Does the first daughter's position on safe sex conflict with her dad's abstinence-only views?

Sexecutives wanted

By Catherine Price — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Durex is looking for Australian men and women for a new unpaid position: Condom tester.

A condom for every city

By Catherine Price — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Could New York, Thailand and India work together toward a future where every condom had a spokesperson and every city its own prophylactic?

So, a pig walks into a bar ...

By Tracy Clark-Flory — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

A new commercial for Trojan condoms depicts a bar full of swine -- except for the "evolved" male carrying a condom.

Are you addicted to semen?

By Tracy Clark-Flory — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

You might be if you're having regular, unprotected sex, says a researcher.

Accidental babies

By Catherine Price — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

In Colorado, 75 percent of teen pregnancies are unintended. What should we be doing to help?

Catholics for condoms

By Page Rockwell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

The Roman Catholic Church comes one step closer to loosening its prohibition on condom use.

Getting sex ed too late

By Catherine Price — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

It's swell if college professors can fill in where many school districts fail, but shouldn't students know this stuff before they start having sex?

Condoms on campus

By Adrienne So — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Free condoms are becoming a staple of college life, but the testosterone-driven marketing tactics may overlook some students' needs.

News flash! Condoms protect against HPV

By Sarah Goldstein — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

A new study proves that condoms are effective in protecting against HPV.

"Abstain, be faithful, or use is-thay ondom-cay"

By Lynn Harris — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

GAO report criticizes limits, ambiguities in congressional mandate for AIDS prevention abroad.

Condoms, condoms everywhere

By Sarah Goldstein — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Complementary safe-sex packs at Daffy's; condom vending machines in Australian schools.

40 million and climbing

By Sarah Boseley and Randeep Ramesh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

The rate of HIV infection worldwide is still on the rise, with Asia particularly at risk, the U.N. reports.

Special delivery: Nerve.com's focus on reproductive rights

By Hillary Frey — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Salon's online neighbor offers a package of articles about choice, sex and the religious right.

Rubber match

By Andrew Leonard — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

What do you get when you design a condom that men want to use? Sued. Inside the twisted patent battle over prophylactics.

Living with death in Mozambique

By Diana Reiss-Koncar — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

As AIDS blights the future of one of the world's poorest countries, ordinary people -- including sex workers -- are fighting back.

Investing in abstinence?

By Tracy Quan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:08:00 PDT

Some may listen to the secretary of state about condom use, but a call girl offers her condom cues instead.