Sex Aid: Porn to Save the Third World

Here is some fun reading:

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13650

This is the story of a company started by two men who wanted to sell condoms via catalog in the US. When they began in the 1970's, sending condoms via mail was illegal since condoms were classified as obscene under the Comstock Law. As a result, business boomed. As it turned out,

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“We tried to get our customers to buy leisure wear, shipbuilding kits, belt buckles, model airplanes,” Harvey recalls. “But they just yawned at that stuff. Every time we put something with erotic appeal in the catalog, the bells would ring.”
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Their intent remains to send free contraception to the third world from the company’s profits, and the contributions are plentiful: nearly 350 million odd condoms and over 23 million pills were generated from the profits of Adam & Eve, the nation’s largest adult-oriented mail-order company.