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Condoms with vibrating rings banned in M.P. (Update)

By: Santosh :+: Under: Culture, Desi Ishtyle, Health, Humor, It Happens Only in India
On: ⋅ June 22, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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You learn something new every day. This morning I learnt sex toys were illegal in India. Pornography, I knew that was illegal in India, at the tender age of 11-12. But it took me almost 2 whole decades to realize sex toys are illegal also.

M.P. Government: Vibrating condoms are the devil
img: via BBC.com

Now to the topic on hand - WTF is a vibrating condom? Ribbed, studded, edible, flouroscent, scented, extra thin - all these kinds I’m familiar with. Maybe I’ve lead a sheltered life or not experimented enough, but a vibrating condom?

Anyway, if you want to buy a vibrating condom, Madhya Pradesh is not the place. The government over there had decided vibrating condoms are sex toys. And sex toys are banned in India. You didn’t know that? Join the gang. This is just the first in a series of WTFs…………….

A promotional message from the company, Hindustan Latex Limited, describes Crezendo as a product that “provides ultimate pleasure by producing strong vibrations” .

WTF, I like the slogan, down to the point and direct - “provides ultimate pleasure by producing strong vibrations”. No (pardon the pun) beating around the bush.

That has caused an outcry among many in conservative India, including the Madhya Pradesh minister for road and energy, Kailash Vijayvargiya, who argues that it is nothing more than a sex toy.

One more thing that (again, pardon pun) stands out from the article - Minister for Road and Energy regulating condoms??? This WTF moment brought you by UberDesi.com. Ok, even I will admit vibrating condoms need batteries. Is that why we have the minister for energy making decisions on condoms?
“Oh, there’s a power outage in Chambal and condoms in Gwalior need batteries. Lets call in the army.”

Then there’s this WTF quote:

“Sex toys are banned in India and the vibrating device is nothing but a sex toy being sold as condoms.

The semantics are mind boggling. Is this a sex toy being sold as a condom or a condom being sold as a sex toy? Or is the sex toy being packaged with the condom? Which came first the chicken or the omlette (just thought I’d throw it in there)? How do you define a sex toy? Is it something that has to have batteries? What about non-vibrating dildos, strap-ons and other sex toys that require no batteries? Do they fit the classic definition (by Madhya Pradesh standards) of a sex toy? If non-vibrating tools are sex toys, then so are non-vibrating condoms. Yes? No?

And finally, WTF, is wrong with having a condom with a vibrator? It’s still a condom, dumbasses.

More UberDesi posts on condoms.

Update: Things are looking up as condom sales have soared after the ban. This development comes as a major KLPD for BJP Minister, Kailash Vijayvargia. To top off the frustration the minister’s last name sounds like a hybrid between Vajayjay and Viagra.

Exhibit #22,340: Politicians in India don’t do any constructive work.

Kailash Vijayvargia has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to convene an all-party meeting on banning the product.

Yup. It’s a matter of national importance.

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