Endangered Species Condoms

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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 1, 2010 @04:11AM from the make-it-growl dept.

The Center for Biological Diversity wants to help put a polar bear in your pants with their endangered species condom campaign. They hope that giving away 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms across the country will highlight how unsustainable human population growth is driving species to extinction, and instill the sexual prowess of the coquí guajón rock frog, nature's most passionate lover, in the condom users. From the article: "To help people understand the impact of overpopulation on other species, and to give them a chance to take action in their own lives, the Center is distributing free packets of Endangered Species Condoms depicting six separate species: the polar bear, snail darter, spotted owl, American burying beetle, jaguar, and coquí guajón rock frog."

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Someone didn't think this through.... by mrsteveman1 · 2010-04-01 04:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Won't these species just become extinct if they can't successfully reproduce?
1. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by tomhudson · 2010-04-01 04:25 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  That's why they're announcing it on slashdot - the one place they can test trial on an endangered species without causing any real reduction in reproductive options.
2. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by Locke2005 · 2010-04-01 04:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not likely... you ever try putting a condom on an American burying beetle? I tried for hours, but eventually just gave up and let the little bugger have unprotected sex. Man, sometimes I can't even tell the male beetles from the female ones.
  
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3. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by Gerzel · 2010-04-01 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  No. The Right-Wingnuts are correct in that distributing condoms causes teen pregnancy. It works across species too.
4. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by Coren22 · 2010-04-01 05:18 · Score: 1
  
  The statements are equally true, to me that means that they are all just as false. :)
  
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5. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by Shakrai · 2010-04-01 05:25 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Man, sometimes I can't even tell the male beetles from the female ones.
  That's easy. Half the male beetles are living in a basement reading /., while the other half hand over their credit cards to the female beetles. All the female beetles are trying on shoes.
  
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6. Re:Someone didn't think this through.... by Optali · 2010-04-01 23:29 · Score: 1
  
  Well, yes, specially if they put condoms on their thingies!
  
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These'll look great on my collectibles shelf by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-01 04:18 · Score: 1, Funny

Hell knows I'll have no reason to use them.
Oh, anything we can do to help by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-01 04:18 · Score: 1, Funny

I bet they can raise even more money by making the condoms out of endangered species.
1. Re:Oh, anything we can do to help by zerosomething · 2010-04-01 04:27 · Score: 1
  
  There you go. Make them from the foreskins of sperm whales. Kind of like lamb skin condoms and avoids all that latex allergy stuff too.
  
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2. Re:Oh, anything we can do to help by Gerzel · 2010-04-01 05:04 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Oh no that would be carefully cleaned off. The smegma costs extra and will mostly be imported to Japan.
3. Re:Oh, anything we can do to help by Shakrai · 2010-04-01 05:21 · Score: 2
  
  You just ruined the sushi dinner I planned on having later tonight.....
  
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Any real stories today? by commodore64_love · 2010-04-01 04:20 · Score: 1

???. Or has the tech industry taken time off? No really, I'm serious. Jokes are cool but so are things like:
Obama announces plans to give Medicare funds to Kaiser-Permanente for Digitizing Medical Records

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1. Re:Any real stories today? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-01 04:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No kidding. I don't trust anything at all on here today. It hasn't seemed this bad since the late 90s.
2. Re:Any real stories today? by commodore64_love · 2010-04-01 04:29 · Score: 1
  
  "Cmon. Everyone knows the best years were 1990 and earlier. You, sir, have demonstrated you are a putz." - Simpsons comic store guy
  
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3. Re:Any real stories today? by choongiri · 2010-04-01 05:04 · Score: 1
  
  Huh? Are you saying that Obama's Medicare announcements are in some way connected to the tech industry?
  Digitizing Medical Records. Think about it.
4. Re:Any real stories today? by insufflate10mg · 2010-04-01 05:08 · Score: 1
  
  Why do people keep saying this? An April Fool's Joke is something benevolent and many times obvious. What would make this story a good April Fool's Joke? What would make basically any other story posted so far today a good April Fool's Joke? April Fool's Day is supposed to be funny, not just a day where paranoid nerds suspect every news story of randomly being false.
Do not want. by Locke2005 · 2010-04-01 04:26 · Score: 2, Funny

I tried these; couldn't see the picture. Apparently you have to unroll them a lot farther than I do...

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1. Re:Do not want. by Shakrai · 2010-04-01 05:33 · Score: 1
  
  Your sig just gave me a great idea for the next time a female insists that I use a condom ;)
  
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2. Re:Do not want. by treeves · 2010-04-01 07:54 · Score: 1
  
  The one-eyed python condom would be pretty cool, though.
  
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Awesome for extinction fetishists by Chris+Burke · 2010-04-01 04:29 · Score: 1

This is great for them since the Endangered Species Act specifically prohibits shoving an endangered animal into bodily orifices.

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1. Re:Awesome for extinction fetishists by Locke2005 · 2010-04-01 04:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Only if you're doing it to smuggle them across international borders. Recreational use is not specifically prohibited.
  
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2. Re:Awesome for extinction fetishists by Chris+Burke · 2010-04-01 04:50 · Score: 1
  
  Oh see I never thought of doing that for any reason but recreational which is why I was confused. When I want to smuggle an endangered animal, I just pretend it's a hat.
  
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3. Re:Awesome for extinction fetishists by Hognoxious · 2010-04-01 04:53 · Score: 1
  
  Win-win - it pleases the abstinence advocates too!
  
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4. Re:Awesome for extinction fetishists by Locke2005 · 2010-04-01 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hint: you have to move the tail out of the way before putting it on. And when you meet people on the street, the bear will inevitably say "Would you believe it started out as just a mole on my butt!", which is really annoying.
  
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real men..... by tverbeek · 2010-04-01 04:32 · Score: 1, Funny

A real man would insist on condoms actually made from the tissues of the endangered animals (a la "lambskin" condoms)!

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1. Re:real men..... by Locke2005 · 2010-04-01 04:39 · Score: 1
  
  Real men don't use condoms. Ever. Chuck Norris just rids himself of STDs with a roundhouse kick. And believe me, you don't wanna know what he does about unwanted pregnancies!
  
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2. Re:real men..... by blackC0pter · 2010-04-01 06:08 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  And here comes the marketing slogan, "gotta wear them all!" With just over 10,000 endangered species, I can't imagine how that could go wrong...
  
  http://www.earthsendangered.com/list.asp
Not polar bears in these pants... by a-zarkon! · 2010-04-01 04:38 · Score: 1

We've got armadillos in our trousers! (Armadillos in danger of extinction? I doubt it, though they are leprous little buggers... http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1306/is-it-true-that-armadillos-carry-leprosy
Re:Fuck that by Ibiwan · 2010-04-01 04:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Sorry, but fuck the polar bear
You DID catch the part where they're condoms, right?

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On behalf of all of /. I ask the following query by spleen_blender · 2010-04-01 04:41 · Score: 1

What the hell is a "condom" and why should we care?
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I like the slogans by Megahard · 2010-04-01 04:50 · Score: 1

Reminds me of the suggestions for National Condom Week.

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Re:Fuck that by sourcerror · 2010-04-01 05:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

The problem is, that not everybody would get a polar bear, because there aren't enough of them.
In the year 2010 by northernfrights · 2010-04-01 05:20 · Score: 1

It is nearly impossible to differentiate between April Fools jokes, and actual news. I find this to be rather disturbing...
Re:Endangered Woodpecker self-vasectomy kit by Coren22 · 2010-04-01 05:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

The "women" in PETA do.

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Ridiculous by Dunbal · 2010-04-01 05:30 · Score: 1

Obviously they have no idea of what their target market is. Anyone interested in endangered species is probably nerdy and thus has no use for a condom - they get in the way of masturbation.
Perhaps "pro football" or "pro wrestling" or "NASCAR" condoms would sell better...

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Didn't read TFA by PPH · 2010-04-01 05:36 · Score: 1
and wondered about the title...
- Isn't putting condoms on endangered species just going to make the problem worse?
- OK. Who is going to volunteer to slip that sucker on the polar bear?
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That's nothing! by PopeRatzo · 2010-04-01 05:38 · Score: 1

wants to help put a polar bear in your pants
The python that's already there would have to make some room.

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1. Re:That's nothing! by archangel9 · 2010-04-01 06:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Just tell your boyfriend to back out slowly.
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Put the blame in the right place! by twitcher101 · 2010-04-01 05:53 · Score: 1

The center is known for some level of hysterics (but also raising public awareness), and this is a case of hysterics. The problem is not population growth, the problem is overconsumption. The places in the world where population is growing tend to consume about 1/40th of the resources of the average person in the US. So until the population of India hits 12 Billion, I am more worried about resource waste in the first world (which tends to have shrinking populations) than population growth in the third world.

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Oh Boy by multipartmixed · 2010-04-01 06:13 · Score: 1

I hope pythons are endangered
Nothing else would fit! :D

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Options by joeslugg · 2010-04-01 06:32 · Score: 1

depicting six separate species: the polar bear, snail darter, spotted owl, American burying beetle, jaguar, and coquí guajón rock frog.
What? No 'Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka'?
(Look out! He's coming right at us!!)
recycle by Dare+nMc · 2010-04-01 06:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Don't forget to recycle, and re-use these condoms.
(something comes to mind about how to recycle a condom: "you just have to shake the f*ck out of it")
Population control by inkrypted · 2010-04-01 08:17 · Score: 1

Forget the condoms lets just have a moron hunting season we could use the people who actually thought this was real news.

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A serious and intelligent initiative by Optali · 2010-04-01 23:47 · Score: 1

That's it, a serious and very insightful campaign. I just can say one thing: WTF ? I mean, wtf guys? Can you imagine? It can totally KILL a hot night. There you are, you finally got the date with that super-hot chocolate chick of your dreams... she strips for you, you feel you are melting... she wants action, your weapon is ready, she takes the rubber, places it on your missile and pulls... and: "Oh darling, it's a real problem whit the ice bears, I agree that we have to do soemthing about it, you know. I've read that the populations are shrinking at an alarming 2,5% per year and that... " SRSLY, that can totality ruin it. No way I'm going to buy them.

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Dear Mother Earth by brisvegasdan · 2010-04-02 01:10 · Score: 1

..we're rooting for you!

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