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Activists promote safe sex with “Condom! Condom!” ringtones

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

Just caught this on Yahoo

Activists promote safe sex in India with cellphone ‘Condom, condom!’ ring tones

NEW DELHI - A cellphone ring tone that sings “Condom, condom!” has been launched to promote safe sex in India.

The a cappella ring tone features a professional singer chanting the word condom more ... Continue reading »

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James Whatley
10 months ago

This is a fantastic idea. Love it.

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Samantha
10 months ago

Are they being serious?

Who would go around with their mobile screaming "condom" everytime you got a text or call?

Apart from anything else, how is it going to encourage safe sex? It's like making ringtones saying "exercise, exercise, exercise" in order to cut obesity levels; it just wouldn't work.

Craziness, if you ask me.

Samantha.

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uk
5 months ago

well so true n i m agree with you,it sounds funny but may be they don have some one who can tell about good marketing

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preshit
10 months ago

Actually, they are.
The Indian Society is pretty orthodox and words like these are not spoken freely among each other. Hence, apparently, there is a lack of whatever.

Although this, in no way, is going to help. The ringtone has become popular, solely because it is catchy. It's a huge hit among college students.

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NightLisa
10 months ago

I just listed to it at www.condomcondom.com and it just sounds like monks singing, if someone didn't tell you what it was saying, you might just think they were singing monosyllabic tones, I can definately tell now that I know what I'm supposed to hear but con con con, dom dom dom - sounds more like dum dum dum - which is pretty universal for monks singing.. Anyway I see where you can download it to your PC, but where do you get it via SMS?

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prakalp
7 months ago

infact this is a good task picked up by you people. but i think it will not much help!!
as we all know our country people are a big orthodox and more than that people feel ashamed of asking or talking about condoms... in addition to this you should also show what are the harmfull effects of unsafe sex. because people here listen to what they fear from not to whom they didn't fear.
with best wishes
prakalp

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mk yogi
6 months ago

it is good idea that people should remember through ring tons but in over country people hesitate to talk about the name of condom in public when the people will lesson this in open area they will become Addy

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