Numerous
agencies,
institutions, and
organizations, such as
Planned Parenthood and
college housing offer free condoms in the name of
public health and
safety. That being considered, you would think that it might be pretty easy to find free condoms
online for those with the inclination to
do the nasty without getting a horrible
disease.
So you go to
Google and put in a search for free
condoms, and find out it's not so easy after all.
The first thing you'll see, and the one you'll come across most often, is a
site called freecondoms.com.
Heads up! Despite the name...
This site does not offer free condoms.
They say they exist in the public interest, as you might
imagine a site offering free condoms would.
Unfortunately, they actually exist to benefit themselves with
advertising revenue, and to benefit
corporations with
promotions.
When you sign on to the site, you get 30 free "condom points". To get more, you must sign up for
credit cards (and be accepted), buy things, and or do a number of other things, that will, at the very least,
involve your
credit card,
phone bill,
home address, etc. At the very least, you trade
information for the "free" condoms and, in the process, put yourself up on the
altar to get screwed with
free trial offers.
The people who really need free condoms are
sexually active teenagers and the otherwise
poverty stricken. How many people in those two groups do you think have
credit cards?
It is one of the biggest website
scams I have ever seen. The
minimum thing you can buy costs 200 "condom points", far above the 30 "free points" you get for signing up.
So you leave that site, and search elsewhere for your free condoms, what do you find?
Novelty sites that
draw you in with "free condoms" on the search engine page that really offer nothing of the sort. Either they have "sampler packs" that still cost
money, or they want large
shipping and handling fees, which seem
unrealistic. And again, you need that
little plastic square.
I did, however, find one site,
one, that offers no strings attached, free condoms, "Project Outreach". It is a
public service organization in
New York City dedicated to
safe sex, etc. You enter your home address in their fields, and they send you twelve, standard
Trojan condoms within a few days, in a
discrete package.
Although they're based in
New York City, they will send the condoms anywhere in the
United States.
you can find them at:
www.doingitsafe.com
In addition, I found that if you go to the
Trojan company website and provide your
address, the company itself will send you
one free
sample condom.
Durex used to have a
free sample offer, but all the pages that link to it now lead to a
404 on the
Durex site.
If any of you other noders know of public service sites like "Project Outreach", offering condoms free of shipping and handling charges with no strings attached, I encourage you to please node it here.