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After learning that my high school stint at McDonald’s wouldn’t get me a job at a mag, I worked as a freelance journalist for a few years. With much haggling and many annoying phone calls, I got a job at Cosmo! As web ed, no two days are the same – some days I’ll be at a video or photo shoot, others I’m interviewing celebs or updating myself on the latest goss (all for research purposes, obviously).
Apart from that, I have a healthy addiction to cupcakes, clutches and Christian Bale. I once watched a VH1 countdown of ‘The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever’ and was proud to announce that I loved every last one of them. I’m very good at tripping over, talking too loud and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Oh … and in an acrostic poem that my friends wrote about me, the “e” in my name stood for “embarrassing.”
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Tue 12
Let's talk about sex, baby
Condoms in pretty packaging? We'll have what she's having.
In the first episode of Sex and the City, a harried Carrie Bradshaw is seen running from her ex-boyfriend's hotel room out onto the streets of New York. In her attempts to weave in and out of the congested people traffic on the sidewalks of Manhattan, she barrels into a tall and handsome stranger, upending the contents of her handbag - including a rather long string of condoms - onto the pavement, for all the world to see.
Of course, the only person who actually sees them (or, at least, pays any attention to the offending prophylactics) is the handsome stranger - thereafter known as Mr Big.
There are, of course, two lessons to this story. Number one: all good girls carry condoms - because you never know when you'll meet your mr Big. Number two: all good girls make attempts to conceal their condoms - because you never know when you'll meet your Mr Big. Not that it's some sort of unforgivable faux pas to display your love gloves - it's just a little awkward to be thinking about having sex before you've even said hello to each other, right?
Luckily, the goodly folk at Marie Stopes International have devised a clever solution to this problem. Introducing Vixen Condoms:
Vixen Condoms, sold at Kmart, D.VICE and online at www.impromptu.com.au, are packaged in gorgeously illustrated tins that look just like lip gloss containers. Unlike most condoms, they're actually targeted at women (which is clever, you see, because it's women who buy condoms most of the time).
What's more, $1 from each tin sold goes towards Marie Stopes International's efforts in developing countries, where the organisation educates men and women on sexual health and family planning. That's enough to make you feel good all over.
For more information, go to www.mariestopes.org.au.
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