If they can make it there...

... they'll make it everywhere, it's up to you, New York, New York...
(I always thought there was something screwy about that place!)

Street teams from the health department will meet commuters around the city Thursday to hand out the new NYC Condom for Valentine's Day, officials said.

Yves Behar, founder of the San Francisco-based design agency, fuseproject, designed the new condom package and its dispenser, which will be placed in 200 venues around the city.

"Good design can help bring condoms out of the closet," said Behar. ((...San Franciscans know a lot about exiting closets, it seems... -- Jemison))

"The NYC Condom has shown us what a sexy brand can do for safer sex," said Dr. Monica Sweeney, the Health Department's assistant commissioner for HIV prevention and control in a statement. "We gave out more than 36 million of them last year. I hope the fresh look will help even more New Yorkers protect themselves from infection and unintended pregnancy in 2008."

Your tax dollars at work. I'm sure this is exactly the kind of government service we fought a Revolution for. As for preventing infection and unintended pregnancy, here's a formula that requires not a single public dollar: abstinence followed by monogamy.