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Chris Van Loan is a senior at the University of Texas in Austin. A lifelong Austin native, Chris is now a member of the Texas Youth Leadership Council -- a project of Advocates for Youth and the Texas Freedom Network.
When I first saw that there was a new TEDTalk this year related to contraception I just knew it would be right up my alley. TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design is a set of conferences in which people give short talks about ideas to change the world. All these talks are now made available for free online and it is easily my favorite site on the internet.
Without giving too much away (watch the vid!), Mr. Viravaidya began a project in Thailand in the 1970s to control the country's population and thus increase the country's quality of life. He had a lot of success.
This video got me to thinking that maybe condoms should be free in America? This sounds like a very anti-capitalist liberal idea to subsidize yet another industry but it makes a lot of sense to me given that our government spends 9 billion dollars a year on supporting teenage mothers.
Mr. Condom had a campaign in this video called "Coffee & Condoms" in which anyone could get free prophylactics at the coffee shop. What if we went to Starbucks and there was a large bowl for anyone to take? Not as a brief marketing campaign to raise awareness, but as a permanent way of life, something we all become used to. Maybe for some people that would be too much, but to me it would be a welcome change over the current belief system in many countries which often seems to believe that condoms are worse than AIDS.
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