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TopicCondom ads

Topic: Condom ads

Anurag Kashyap, Samay Raina’s Bold Care campaign signals a shift in Indian condom advertising

Advertising condoms in India has long been a challenging task, with brands like Manforce and Skore having to tiptoe around cultural sensitivities.

Women’s pleasure not precaution — Indian condom ads have become better over the years

They started with family planning and gradually evolved to show safe sex and now talk about female pleasure. Good to see ads where the woman is not a placeholder or overly sexualised.

Why is India’s condom usage so low? First ‘condomology’ report notes social factors

Citing data from NFHS 4, the report says nearly 80% of men aged between 20 and 24 did not use a contraceptive with their last sexual partner.

The KamaSutra ad that changed the role of condoms in India from functional to pleasurable

Depicting a sensuous Pooja Bedi in the shower, the 1991 ad was a landmark for being the first in India to show the contraceptive as a tool of pleasure.

Durex Condom ad: Are Indian women really having an orgasm crisis?

A new ad campaign by condom brand Durex talks about #OrgasmInequality. It says that nearly 70 per cent women in India don’t orgasm every time during sex.

कंडोम एड : बैन नहीं, बढ़ावा देने की है ज़रूरत

‘कामसूत्र’ कंडोम का पहला विवादास्पद विज्ञापन बनाने में प्रमुख भूमिका निभाने वाले शख्स का कहना है कि कंडोम के विज्ञापनों को बच्चों के लिए...

Stop Bollywood music if you really want to save children from indecent content

If the intent is to not expose children to sex related content, most popular Bollywood music and many prime time soap operas should face the axe first.

India bans condom ads because 50-year-olds still can’t deal with 15-year-olds having sex

The Advertising Standard Council of India, questioned us about the slogan in the Kama Sutra condom commercial: ‘For the pleasure of making love.’

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.