While I am all for encouraging safer sex, I would prefer that such efforts not conflate the penis with a weapon. Goodness knows doing so only contributes to the idea that the penis is inherently or naturally useful for enacting violence and women’s bodies inherently or naturally vulnerable to violation from men.
Julie C. sent along a link to a set of safer sex ads that included these three:
This next one needs to be after the jump (not safe for work, and also a possible trigger for anyone who’s been sexually assaulted):
Bug Girl, in the comments to another post, linked to this commercial by MTV:
We’ve also featured the unsafe-sex-is-like-having-sex-with-a-gun theme in a previous post.
—————————
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
