Every year we keep getting back to this issue of condoms versus the morality of a nation. It seems to me that, whereas we seem to agree how far we should go in marketing condoms, we keep finding ourselves being pulled backwards.

Recently, an advert has begun to appear on ZNBC television (Zambia) in which a young lady is telling her peers how to convince a boyfriend that they need to use a condom in order to have sex with a peace of mind. To be fair, she does not state that it is with a boyfriend.

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