The city’s World Cup condoms are ready
They’re funny. And free!
There must be something about major sporting events that skyrockets a city’s sexual activity, because Toronto Public Health has just unveiled—and not without precedent—six soccer-inspired condom designs to “celebrate the energy of the games while promoting sexual health” during the World Cup.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists are set to visit Toronto during its six matches in June and July, so Toronto Public Health will distribute 500,000 free condoms to welcome them through its CondomTO initiative. This week, the program shared its designs. The prophylactics at Shoppers Drug Mart can’t touch our municipal condoms’ sense of humour, that’s for sure. Related: Did Canada get the World Cup’s sloppy seconds?
Should you wish to present your partner with a condom displaying cheeky sports-themed double entendres such as “Block those shots!” (wow) and “What a finish!” (wow again), here’s a list of sexual health clinics where you can pick some up:
Bloor West, 2340 Dundas St. W. Jane-St. Clair, 662 Jane St. North York, 5110 Yonge St. Scarborough, 160 Borough Dr.
“Whether you’re attending a soccer match, a watch party, hitting a summer festival or partying, remember that condoms protect the health of you and your partner(s),” an announcement on the city’s website said.
Knowing their audience perhaps, on social media, they went with a soccer ball emoji beside a flame emoji. Whatever gets the message across! Just don’t litter your condom wrappers in Liberty Village, please.
Related: Olympic athletes in Milan went through 10,000 condoms in three days
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
