Derrick Burts, a male porn performer who contracted HIV, is speaking out in favor of condom usage in the industry.

…after working in both gay and straight porn films for a few months. He had previously been identified only as Patient Zeta. …performed in straight films as “Cameron Reid” and gay films as “Derek Chambers,”…

Thankfully, none of his partners has tested positive. He contracted HIV thru what the clinic called a “known positive” performer.

…straight porn performers must show negative HIV test results before filming, the gay porn industry does not have the same restrictions … clinic staff told him they could not reveal the performer’s name or gender due to patient confidentiality.

…in the months before he tested positive for HIV, he had also contracted chlamydia, gonorrhea and herpes.

Gotta love the the great ads for the Durex XXL condoms.

Just in time for the Christmas shopping rush – condoms made from fish swim bladders for sale. Oh, and they are 110 years old. And they are used.

Cool Japanese item – finger condoms.

More people are having sex, and yet the frequency of condom use is down. Come on people – keep your naughty bits clean!

The world’s greatest online sex education game created by a government.

Gotta love the masked wrestler with the giant penis for a right hand. They should have a WWE character like that!

Susannah Breslin has some thoughts on making condoms mandatory in porn. She doesn’t think its likely to work.

Guess which cities have the biggest dicks?

There are always some good sex stories that come out of the Olympics and this year was no different.

We had the topless female curler – the female curlers were generally very hot. There was the snowboarder getting his medal sucked while wearing it around his waist. There was the guy that blamed a bad ski run on watching too much porn and being distracted by his upstairs neighbor having so much sex.

And of course the 100,000 condoms that the 7,000 athletes burned thru during the 2 weeks.

Apparently the male ego is so fragile that the Kinsey Institute is recommending that condom makers start faking the sizes of their condoms. So now that Large sized condom you buy might be the same as the Medium was last week.

Condom ads are finally going to get some run on major network television. NBC has agreed to air ads after 10pm and the WB will air them after 9pm.

There are no laws banning condom ads in primetime, but the networks have taken the position that it invites backlash from family-values advocates, the newspaper said.

Yes yes, don’t upset the crazy religious loons. There shouldn’t be any problems with condom ads – if a network wants to allow ads for Viagra or Cialis, then they ought to be running condom ads right along with them … and Colt 45 too.

Considering their recent law banning sex toys, I was a bit suprised to see this article on condoms running in the U of Alabama student newspaper. They seems quite pleased with themselves that the condom most used by students on campus got a high ranking from Consumer Reports (also see the Slate comdom comparison).