July 7 2004
Thailand rises to condom challenge

Senator Mechai Viravaidya is Thailand's undisputed Condom Tsar. He's worked tirelessly to promote their use and many Thais now refer to a condom as a "Mechai." He owns the popular restaurant "Condoms & Cabbages" on Sukhumvit Soi 12 - where diners are given a condom with their bill instead of a mint. If your girlfriend ever finds one in your pocket, it's an excuse worth remembering.
Thai condoms make excellent finger puppets but they're not much use during sex. Even the branded imports are thin, weak and thimble-sized (See Thai lust for farang monster cock). Pity the careless sex-tourist who forgets to bring an adequate supply. A Thai pharmacist would probably advise him to slit open a fertilizer sack.
It seems that farang calls to "supersize me" have finally reached Mr Mechai's ears. He's responded by promoting a new "international" sized condom which will be handed out free to tourists arriving at Bangkok airport during the global AIDS forum in July. Here's the full story from AFP, entitled "Thai tourists to get free condoms."
Tourists travelling to Thailand will be greeted with an "international" size condom along with the traditional smile in July to mark a global AIDS forum in Bangkok, a Thai senator said.
Senator Mechai Viravaidya said larger condoms would be handed out for free at the airport while a choice of sizes would be on offer in some taxis, the main train station and at freeway toll booths throughout the July 11-16 International AIDS Conference.
"There will be two sizes. A larger international condom and a smaller local one," Mechai told AFP, adding "but if a local feels they need an international condom then they will certainly be given one."
"It's just to let people realize we do have a problem with AIDS in the world and condoms are the major way of preventing it," said Mechai.
He said about 350,000 condoms would be handed out, but that if stocks dwindled more would be supplied.
Mechai spearheaded Thailand's first condom awareness campaign in the late 1980s which is credited with dramatically reducing the kingdom's annual rate of new HIV infections.
The $US15m AIDS conference, themed "Access for All", will bring together up to 20,000 delegates including world leaders, scientists, activists and people living with HIV-AIDS.
It was announced this week that the AIDS conference is to be cancelled because most of the World's leaders, including Kofi Annan, are too busy to attend. However, the Thai authorities remain tight-lipped about the fate of our free johnnies.
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