The Brazilian government has inaugurated on Monday a condom factory that is aimed at providing livelihood to hundreds of Brazilian rubber tappers and at the same time help preserve the Amazon rain forest. In a statement, Brazil's Health Ministry said the factory in Xapuri, in the northwestern part of the capital Sao Paulo, has the capacity to produce 100 million condoms a year.

Two teenagers were suspended from school for two days, for wearing homemade shirts with condom packs attached to them. The shirts also had the words "Safe Sex or No Sex" brandished at the front. The students, 14-year old Cheyenne Bird, and 15-year old Victoria Shoemaker, of the Lewis and Clark Junior High School, went to school Monday wearing the shirts, which they said were meant to protest the school's pro-abstinence curriculum.

Denver is the most "lustful" city in America judging by the number of contraceptives sold in the city compared with its population size. According to a ranking made by Forbes Magazine and research firm ACNielsen, Denver is followed by San Antonio, Texas and Portland, Oregon, both tied for second place. The other states in the list are Seattle; Salt Lake City; Washington, D. C. ; Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati; Baltimore; and Buffalo.

A customer of Rutland Burger King is suing the owner of the food chain after biting into a Southwestern Whopper that he claimed contained a condom. Van Miguel Hartless immediately complained to the manager but he "laughed off the incident," Hartless said.

Nepalese women have been telling their husbands working overseas to abstain from sex with other women so they will not contract sexually transmitted diseases. However, in case their husbands cannot control their sexual urges, women in Pang village in the Midwestern mountains of Nepal, have been sending their partners with condoms via mail. Their motto was, if you can't control it, at least be safe.