Lietje Bonello Boissevain, Swieqi
Preventing the unplanned
I may stand alone but I don't think that the Vodafone condom package for University students is a bad idea.
According to David Pace O'Shea (October 6) "Vodafone are promoting full sexual relationships".
I rather think that this campaign is not promoting but preventing the unplanned and unwanted consequences of what's already happening.
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A Attard
Oct 10th 2009, 17:56
Lietje, you are NOT alone. Many of us are wondering why so many who complained insist on keeping their head in the sand. It's not as if many students are not already having sex. At least, they are being reminded to do it responsibly.
charles cassar
Oct 10th 2009, 16:37
Considering that the subject is a sensitive issue, Vodafone's advert (because a commercial advert it was) was a poor one. Vodafone showed lack of respect towards a large number of people. And this for a miserly number of new subscribers.
Pule' Carmel
Oct 10th 2009, 16:03
My experience with SEX, and that includes my own, that of many of my colleagues, and that of many students here in Malta and Overseas, is that once you taste the sweetness of the sugar involved,one prefers this repeatedSweetness everytime one faces other situations which require dedicationStresses and harder work than normal.
Many young people's academic life and carriers seems to slow down drastically when they chose to experience SEX and curtail that extreme effort required to aim for the highest standards.
Working under stress beyond their natural level, many people seek a form of medicine, game, entertainment, drug, toys, to distract them away from the pressure of reality. Such activities include, Drink, Playing loud music, High speed driving, Drug curious, Infertile SEX used as a toy, or entertainment, without responsibliity. I call these "toys" ...... "effortless pleasures" where the operator of these toys, all that he/she requires is to be present with an instinct rather than the use of any gained intelligence which requires effort to gain it.
Yes, what is going on in Malta , I have seen before in other countries and as far as academic standards are concerned, down they will go, not up.
Lina Caruana
Oct 10th 2009, 14:54
Somehow I feel that the unplanned would also skip the condom unless it is a habit of poor human relations amongst young people which can be an obstavle to a good marriage later on.
adrian aquilina
Oct 10th 2009, 12:27
at last someone who understands life..good letter
William P Flynn
Oct 10th 2009, 11:05
No that's not correct. Priests want you to not have sex at all until you get married; stay celibate until you finish your degree, say until you're well into your 20's; then maybe spend a few years courting , and a period of engagement . So no sex till say, you're 25 or 30 years old.
Perfectly reasonable and realistic - if you are a priest, asexual or impotent. For the rest, condoms are perfectly sensible, realistic, necessary and healthy.
Gerry Cowie
Oct 10th 2009, 11:05
A lot of fuss has been made about this issue.
Basically this is about Vodafone promoting Vodafone and nothing else.
After all, what do condoms have to do with mobiles?