Wouldn't it be cheaper to just send every teenager in the country a gross of condoms every few months?

can we have a facepalm/``oh dear god what are those fucking muppets wasting our money on this time?'' icon? Please? Pretty please?

When I was a teenager in the eighties, rather than all this cool, sexy targetted advertising, we had the AIDS campaign: HAVE SEX AND YOU WILL DIE!!!

There's probably some figures somewhere, but I wonder which is the more effective? All I know about the latest campaign is that I'd quite like one of those Gonorrhea necklaces :)

Why is it that young people have to buy condoms? Or have to sign up to "anonymous" schemes that only need your name address and dob (Oh so anonymous)

Its damn embarrasing for a young person to go to shop/chemist to buy them. Damn goverments

All that money wasted... and still not as good as this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_rrr5WrVE

....shown on TV in advert breaks. So I guess not all of the spend (ahem) was just for the mobile side?

Hasnt anyone else seen them?

The Government's well known for pissing money on the wall.

The Government's known to be the largest advertising spender in the country.

Why is the fact that the Government's pissing advertising money on the wall such a shock?

The only astonishing thing here is that 5000 people took a vague interest in what is, effectively, a multi part "Government information film" (showing my age). Ah! Distributed via ArseBook and Tw@tter. Now I understand. Given a massive audience of people with absolutely no life at all they only managed to get a "meh" or better out of 5000. Problem solved.

That's pennys. Sony spent 30 million on their Bravia adverts. If these adverts save even just a few hundred child pregnancies which the state ends up not paying for it will probably have made a considerable amount of the money back!

Three questions

1. What country in the world has the lowest teen pregnancies?

2. How do they achieve this?

3. How much will it cost to copy this?

Job done.

Well this campaign is Obviously doing appallingly so they have put it up for an award to show how marvellous it is!

Just stop benefits to chavs for them having children. Stops them reproducing more effectively, while saving money...

I used to like going to buy them. I only used to make them into balloons and stuff but it made me feel like a rock star anyway, and nobody else ever knew they weren't getting used.

Well not till now anyway - where's that facepalm smilie?

I work with people dealing with teenage pregnancy and sex ed. None of them knew about this either.

...producing all this flashy nanny state nonsense.

Although nice to see that our molly codling public sector overlords are doing their bit to keep recession from the door of web2.0 with all this fluffy semi-harrasment.

"Preventing teenage pregnancies is an important thing, and government money can be well spent that way.."

There's a simple answer.

Put the Government/Civil Service in charge of all teenage sex. Let them organise brothels, a 'date and screw' service, and provide free two-hour bedroom bookings in unused council houses.

I guarantee that, within 6 months, we'll have the lowest teenage pregnancy rate in the world, a generation of 30-year-old virgins, a plummeting population and nursery schools going out of business...

Can't u just do it standing up? 's gravity, innit?

I just registered so that'll bring the price down a bit.. Of course, what they totally fail to realise ("age" on the signup form) that although the legal age is 16, there are shedloads of under-16s having sex and getting up the duff on a regular basis. There are many reasons for this but surely the most recent one is it's now one of the few ways of getting on the property ladder!

I'm only going to comment on the logo, I was quite deeply involved in this particular piece of art, and I can assure everyone, bored enough to have got this deep into the comments, that I'm not the one running off with all the money...in fact I didn't even get half the fee paid for the completion and usage of the finished artwork. another company who cocked the job up, took about two thirds of the overall spend and then my agent took 20% +VAT I think I made somewhere in the region of £3500 before paying my agent (£820) and the tax man... my overall profit was £1876, for this i produced three initial versions, and reworked the final version about six times, including hand lettering each version and producing stencil versions, all of this was done throughout the Christmas holidays. Added to this I believe the final agreement meant that I had to surrender all the rights ito the artwork indefinitely... Interesting when it's broken down exactly where the money goes... So to be honest I find it interesting to hear exactly how much companies are spending on the finished products and who gets the cash.

Do the math:

# of teens who already know about condoms

- # of teens who don't know but are too stupid to learn

- # of teens who don't know and don't give a rat's ass

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zero

Well, given they seem to prefer little boys, no wonder...

they ran a site takeover on profileheaven.com as well. It had quite a few more hit's than stated, I should know I used to own it :)

...how can I get more of it.

You *subscribed* to receive this ? Oh hang on, you were just doing it for the journalism angle weren't you ...

@Mark Johnson posted > I think the Vatican City has the lowest rate of teen pregnancies.

Only because little boys can't get pregnant....

Looks like Nathan Barley and his cohorts are alive and well.

More's the pity.

Mine's the one with the Wasp T-12 Speechtool in the pocket.

why dont we just start shooting teenagers who get pregnant, and the guy who did the deed. that will end it pretty fucking quickly eh?

1 chemical in all clothing from JJB sports, another chemical in all Greggs produce. If you eat a steak bake whilest wearing a tracksuit you get sterilesd for a month.

That way, all the charvers could rut away with their cousins to their hearts content without dirtying up the genepool.

£50 per head?

most teenagers give it away for a few lagers!

OK, I can see it's useful to store condoms with your mobile, but the design does seem a tad expensive, and isn't it more of a phone accessory, not a Gov. project?

Oh, you mean video clip? That would be really stupid - whoever heard of a successful Gov. information video?

Like middle class children never get pregnant. Of course Mummy and Daddy can sort out either a nice discrete abortion. Or hire a nanny to take care of the little rug rat.

But note

We *do* have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe (AFAIK. The EU is a lot bigger than it was so some squalid corner of the former Eastern Block may be worse) and the Netherlands was the lowest. IIRC the age of consent there (*between* minors) is 12. They accept relatively young children do have sex with each other.

I went to a good school. My Sex Ed. classes were pretty good. God knows what would have happened if it had been left in the hands of my parents.

However there is the fact that quite a lot of girls *like* the idea of being pregnant. They like the respect of being a parent (they have no real idea what it means as they have probably never had a proper parent), the chance of their own home and to be treated better as the have a child to look after.