R&B singer Jeremih, self-proclaimed "Mr. Birthday Sex himself," wants to make sure that D.C. youth remember to have safe sex (and listen to Jeremih's hit single, "Birthday Sex"). In this PSA recorded for the local "Street Wize Foundation," Jeremih inserts some safe-sex messages over the, uh, sex messages of "Birthday Sex."

So ... ejaculation. It turns out that where you do it can greatly affect a woman's chances of becoming pregnant. Like: If you ejaculate straight up into her vagina, she's more likely to become pregnant; if you ejaculate into a condom or anywhere else in the world, she's less likely to conceive. Every 16-year-old boy [...]

A Manchester couple vacationing in Washington D.C. has revealed that the pair will not be smuggling any condoms back with them to England. On a last-minute shopping spree in the CVS Pharmacy in Dupont Circle, the British pair snubbed America’s "most trusted" Trojan condoms, stating “we wouldn’t buy them, because we don’t know the brand.”
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Its 5 o’clock at Dupont Circle’s CVS pharmacy, and a steady stream of customers begins to arrive.
Two men loiter between the “eye care” and the “vapor relief” sections. They look around. They seem on edge. They’re sizing up the condoms. I understand their distress—confronted with eight shelves of contraceptives, how's a girl guy to choose [...]

Pharmacies that keep their condoms in locked cases cite shoplifting as the main rationale for the safe-sex lock-up. When shoppers are ashamed to buy sex-related items, the theory goes, they're more likely to steal them—instead of sheepishly carrying them to the counter. But condom shame could hold a hidden benefit for pharmacies as well: When [...]

The Flowers Heritage Foundation has pledged to give away one million condoms to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The District of Columbia has received one-tenth of the non-profit's pledge: The foundation has gifted 100,000 condoms to the D.C. Department of Health's HIV/AIDS Administration. So far, Flowers Heritage Foundation has also given 100,000 rubbers to [...]

Tomorrow, Cure CVS Now and a coalition of public health advocates will gather outside the Dupont Circle CVS store in an attempt to pressure the pharmacy chain to rethink its locked condom policies. The ultimate goal of the "rally and press conference" is to convince "CVS to adopt a corporate policy to keep all condoms [...]

Via Feministe: Advocates for Youth, in conjunction with Cure CVS Now, has created a petition to tell CVS to unlock the condom cases in its stores:
Call on CVS to unlock condom cases in all its stores. Locked condoms create a barrier to condom access, and could be a threat to public health. CVS's practice of [...]

Last week, I wrote about how CVS Pharmacies in Washington, D.C. are continuing to limit access to condoms by locking up some stores and declining to work with public health activist groups. The main problem with condom lock-up is that it forces customers to interact with several employees, wait around in front of the condom [...]

At, CVS' Adams Morgan location, some condoms remain locked.
Three years ago, if you were to walk into a CVS store in search of condoms, you’d face about a 50 percent chance of hitting a brick wall. In 2006, 22 of about 50 CVS stores in the District of Columbia were guarding their condoms under lock [...]