September 17, 2003

CANADA--THE COLDEST PART OF HELL:

Flavored condoms for Canadian cons in bad taste (Reuters, 9/17/2003)

A plan to provide prison inmates with a bulk order of fruit-flavored condoms was in bad taste and has been canceled, the cabinet minister in charge of prisons in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba told the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper.

Prison bureaucrats issued a tender for C$8,400 ($6,130) in strawberry, banana and vanilla condoms for 10 jails -- but withdrew the offer when a reporter asked about it, the article in Tuesday's Free Press said. [...]

Manitoba prisons have distributed condoms to inmates since 1998 to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but do not encourage "at-risk behavior," Mackintosh was quoted as saying, noting that senior government officials did not know about the flavored-condom order.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 17, 2003 10:11 PM
Comments

Orrin: you beat me to this one. And here I was thinking my "Cruel and Unusual" headline would have been so clever.

Posted by: John Resnick at September 17, 2003 10:53 PM

I thought momentarily about posting on this one too, but the need to contemplate what kind of prison sex benefits from strawberry-flavorings on the condoms was a great deterrent, and so I quickly moved on.

Posted by: pj at September 17, 2003 11:29 PM

On the other hand, if they were fortified with vitamins and minerals...

Posted by: Barry Meislin at September 18, 2003 5:04 AM

Canada has officially left Christiandom!

Posted by: J.H. at September 18, 2003 10:28 AM

Barry:

They're filled with protein....

Posted by: oj at September 18, 2003 10:39 AM

J.H.

I think you have already expelled us several times before. Besides, not true. As we now know, Canadians spend more time than you washing their hands and cleanliness is next to godliness.

Barry/Orrin: Yuck!

Posted by: Peter B at September 18, 2003 1:02 PM

Sorry Peter,

I forgot there were a few Christian soldiers
left up north.

Posted by: J.H. at September 18, 2003 1:13 PM

Cheaper to provide condoms than to treat 'em for AIDS.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 19, 2003 6:55 AM

It's cheaper to kill the poor than feed, clothe, and house them. Wanna live in a cheap society or a decent one?

Posted by: oj at September 19, 2003 9:20 AM

oj:

Is it your position, then, that the inmates will stop having sex, if no condoms are provided ?

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 20, 2003 4:30 AM

No, it's my position that ordering "flavored" condoms belittles the problem of prison rape.

Posted by: oj at September 20, 2003 7:01 AM
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