One truck carrying 5000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a 7m inflatable prophylactic.

The co-ordinator of an HIV/Aids awareness tour, Polo Gomez, said on Wednesday that the "Condomovil" was parked in front of a friend's house in Mexico City when it disappeared on Sunday evening.

He believes the truck was stolen, but he doesn't know why. Police are still investigating.

The truck should be easy to spot. It features painted images of a peeled banana, the exposed part shaped like a condom, and a shirtless man saying: "I protect myself. Do you?"

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The jokes write themselves. Maybe the truck was taken by their mates. It was your truck, but now it's durex truck. That was a terrible joke. They were both terrible jokes. At least I never did the one about the thief who came in the night...

If you eat too much cake, you get fat. If you want to avoid the consequences of eating too much cake, your doctor will recommend that you abstain from cake. At least a few days a month. If you tell your doctor that you can eat as much cake as you like worry free because you are always careful to throw up in a bag after every meal, your doctor will say that you have an eating disorder. A serious eating disorder which ruins lives.

Contraception is the same. You can either have a healthy sex life in which you may occasionally have to abstain from sex because you don't want to have a baby right now, or you can convince yourself (wrongly) that you can have oodles of consequence free sex so long as you have your little rubber bag. You can dislocate the connection between your sexual activities and the natural laws of cause and effect and enter in to a fantasy world where women can be used for pleasure and then discarded.

That ruins lives as well.

Not very funny is it.

Mark Shea has it covered...

Post-Christian Culture Feels Its Way Back to Sanity

Pathetic victims of Generation Narcissus' scorched earth approach to sexual wisdom are now feeling their way back to ideas like "commitment". The story I link above announces that the way many youth are announcing "I love you and want to make it permanent" is, not with an engagement ring, but by taking off the condom.

Scripture describes Jesus as having pity on his flock because they were like sheep without a shepherd. I think the response of Jesus to a story like this is pity. In their own sad way, the youth in this story are facing reality far more clearly than their idiot parents who labored to reduce sex to a plumbing problem. Marriage is indeed the sacrament of sex and the sexual act is indeed the body's declaration of lifelong fidelity. Contraception is the crossed fingers behind the back, the way of saying "Well, not really" while the lips say "I love you and give myself completely to you and our family."

So the poor pitiable kids whose highest expression of love is to take off a condom is rather like the widow who offered two copper coins. It's all he has and the Lord can work with that. Far more pitiable are the dolts who handed him that contraceptive culture in the first place and sold him the whole bill of good about the Imperial Autonomous Self. My generation has so much to answer for.

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