For further evidence of the same, check this shizzle out: The British government—the government, mind you, not some crazy liberal freeloving hippies from Vermont—has a scheme in place to hand out condom cards to boys as young as age 12. And younger, at the discretion of local councils. The plan is to allow the boys to present the card at "football grounds, barber's shops, and scout huts."
Scout huts. I fucking kid you not. I mean...I guess the Boy Scout motto is "be prepared." There's nothing like free condoms for preparedness.
Also fun: Boys who take a sex-ed class get a stamp on their card, which the authorities hope will become a "status symbol." How adorable is it that the naïve grown-ups always think education is a viable candidate for status symbol–hood? Hee hee!
But wait, y'all. There's more. I give you The Great Sperm Race, which "tells the story of human conception as it's never been told before."
Allow me to explain.
This Channel 4 documentary follows a human-size path to the egg, using humans (dressed as sperm) and life-size, vagina-like obstacles...such as the Grand Canyon.
Sexy.
Best bit: My fave actor, one Richard Armitage, who is incredibly talented (in addition to being quite attractive and having a lovely voice), is the narrator! I can't embed the two clips, but they are here and here, and I really must insist that you check them out. I'm telling you, people, this is some weird weirdness. Tragically, though I believe the documentary is available stateside, word on the Interweb is that it has a different (albeit, oddly, still English) narrator.
Richard Armitage: Esteemed narrator of The Great Sperm Race
Finally, let it be noted that I am officially tired of Googling image results for "condoms."
