'Condom Clothing' Unveiled At Beijing Fashion Show

If you plan to go out this weekend and you DO NOT want anyone else to be wearing the same outfit as you - you may want to take a closer look at this new collection.

From tight-fitting wedding gowns, scaly-looking evening dresses to outrageous bikinis, China's largest condom manufacturer, Guilin Latex Factory, unveiled some interest clothing to promote the use of condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

It also marked World Population Day, organized annually by the U.N. Population Fund.

China, with a population now of 1.3 billion, introduced a strict one-child policy in the late 1970s under which many residents are restricted to one child.

"One (child) is not enough -- two are better," said visitor Song Weiliang.

But the main aim of the condom show was to promote AIDS awareness.

China originally stigmatized AIDS as a disease of the decadent, capitalist West -- a problem of gays, sex workers and drug users. Traditionally, none of these officially existed in communist China.

It has belatedly woken up to the problem, and health experts have warned the virus is now moving into the general population. But a lack of sex education and unwillingness to talk about sex still hampers the fight, health experts say.

I don't know if being shown clothing made out of condoms would change my perception of safe sex? Either you know that you can get pregnant if you don't use a condom or you don't. Maybe parents should sit down and talk with their kids...

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