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Friday, March 5, 2010 | 8:47am
SOUND OFF: Is Marketing Mini Condoms For Pre-Teens Ethical?
As kids have sex at younger ages where should we draw the line between preaching prevention and giving spankings?
While many African Americans boast to be in the constant persuit of a larger condom that fits our mythically large anatomy a Swiss condom company has begun marketing a smaller condom aimed at pre-teens. While the average condom is 2 inches wide, these new condoms called “Hotshots” are 1.7 inches in width and engineered to fit still developing boys who are having sex. They make sure they have plenty of protection for it. That’s right! They condone the sex practices of their youth so much that they have a condom just for their little premature private member.
The debate about distribution of condoms in High Schools has been a hot topic now for two decades but with age kids begin to have sex drastically lower than it was 20 years ago the Prevention vs. Advocating Sex debate has shifted.
If kids are having sex at 10, 11, 12 years old, should Condom Manufacterers beging to produce condom lines to cater to them? Is it ethical? At such a young age should what should be the message? Protect Yourself or Wait?! SOUND OFF!
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As Rodney Dangerfield said years ago, the next step is birth control pills shaped like Fred Flintstone
Morality aside, sounds like bad biz to me. What kid who thinks he’s grown enough for sex also believes he needs “mini” condoms?
I always beleive that when it comes to kids you need to constantly help them understand the risks that come with sex and promote waiting. At the same time you have to be ready to help and educate the ones who just wont listen and decide to take that leap.
so market the magnums to the kids even though they’ll wear em like baggy jeans?
That’s a good one: sagging condoms!
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Hell yeah it’s unethical! WTF?!
11 year olds today have the same basic emotional maturity as they did 50 years ago; society has changed, but we have not evolved (many argue we have taken steps backward). Emotionally, even physically, pre-teens are not ready for sex; hell, teens are not ready for sex!
Because of more single-parent households, two-job parents, CRACK, many kids are not getting the home training we did. So, the streets (and TV, and now the internet) are raising kids. Let’s not confuse that with kids today being better equipped to handle certain things, like sex. I’ve raised my 13 y/o son like a little man his entire life. He is smart and responsible. He has all the gadgets and modern conveniences. He’s also street-wise. He is nowhere near ready for sex.
how can you be sure of that tho Emerson?
You brave Juan!!!!! I am not even going there!!!!
To be ready for sex, you have to be ready for the consequeces that having sex can bring: a baby! there is no 10-13 year old ready for that.
Yea this isn’t right.. 11-14 year old boys having sex.. that means girls the same age usually will be there partner.. i don’t have any kids.. but i have a niece who is 10 and the thought of her in a situation like this is awful… don’t market sex to kids, no matter if its safe sex…. let them be kids please.. i don’t want to go to jail for chocking the hell out of a little boy
i totally agree with everyone but little kids are gonna keep on doing whatever they are doing and what little kid is gonna go out and pick these condoms up anyway any condom for that matter.shit when i was that age i was too embarassed to buy condoms so i used to steal them from my older bro.til one day his girlfriend started counting his condoms and seen that one went missing and they got into it.(true story)
90210 has a good point. Kids are more sexually knowledgeable that us adults. I just found out what Sexting was. I remember when my 14 year old cousin at the time told me about tea bagging. They’re not hip to the sensation of sex or ramifications but yes they’re hip to how cool it makes them look.
As a parent my son is my responsibility, as his father I am his gaurdian, his mentor, his teacher. My only hope is that when he is in that situation he will remember what I taught him and make the right decision. These lessons must be learned at a yound age, you must bend the tree when it is young.
The problem is is that most parents nowadays are too busy trying to be the kid’s friend and trying to be kids they damn self. Then when their 13,14,15 yr old daughters get knocked up they want to bitch and cry. My daughter is 13 and we had the basic sex talk when she was 10. When she started growing titties for real we had it again with more detail(12yrs). And the minute she turned 13 we went all out…oral sex, slang terms for different forms of sex, disease(with pictures) and so on. She is taking a sex ed course this semester and the girl still didn’t know what a clit was…SMH. If parents better educate their children on the dangers and the responsibilities that come with having sex than this wouldnt even be a problem. Do I like this…HELL NO…BUT I’d rather the kids use condoms that fit than condoms that don’t(my daughter is a condom baby). Tell your children that condom or no condom NOTHING IS GUARANTEED!!
I agree with you 100%, Chelle. I run a teen group called “Wiseguys.” It’s for boys, up to age 15, and they all claim to be sexually active, but don’t know a thing about sex (well, they only where they have to put it in somewhere!). I have the STD pics and other curriculum, and the look on their faces is priceless when they look at the information. They’re shocked, and even disgusted. Hopefully, it helps them to change their behavior.
Man man if kids are fuck’n at that age that is just all wrong…and they shouldn’t make codoms any smaller because your tell’n kids that your 10,11 & 12 that it is okay to have sex….just imagine it was your kids have sex at that age & i’m pretty sure you would feel the same way i do. if your reading this and your saying you wouldn’t care if your kids were have’n sex at that age your sick in the head and your kids should be taken away from you…
so wat do u want more 10 11 12 year old mothers yea its kinda weird but do u want ur daddys princess being knocked up(im 12 by tha way)