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Condoms With QR Code Tell Us Where You Been Doin' It
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 28, 2012
Modified Feb 28, 2012
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If advertisers and benevolent social media giants already know how many times we play Ke$ha and search for "weird back mole" on our phones, we might as well turn over the approximate locations where we embarrass ourselves sexually. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has distributed 55,000 condoms to college students in Washington State that have QR codes, and encouraged them to scan them whenever they practice safe sex. We have nothing against Planned Parenthood (Honest! We love it!) But maybe America's coeds need a refresher on how a condom works first.
Some of those condoms have crept over to New York City, and curiously a whole bunch have been scanned around Chambers and Broadway. Maybe because nothing sets the mood like a Checkers Big Buford.
Even if you don't have one of those nifty Tron-condoms, you can still tell everyone where you're having safe sex by plugging in your information here. We'll start with this address: 1600 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
[via GeekWire]
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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