Because apparently sex needs to be a public act that’s advertised and encouraged, Planned Parenthood has taken advantage of the QR code phenomena and has added it to condoms. You, too, can check in that you are having sex, and even rate how good it was. But please don’t.

I wish I were kidding, but alas! I’m dead serious and grieved. In Washington State, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) has joined a nationwide effort and distributed 55,000 bar-coded condoms to colleges and universities, encouraging “safe sex.” According to the Seattle Times:

These aren’t just regular condoms. The QR codes on the wrappers can be scanned by smartphones, connecting users to a mobile website that plot their approximate location and ask a few non-identifying questions such as age range and questions like: “The Safe Sex Was ” — with choices ranging from “ah-mazing” to “things can only improve from here.”

The spokesperson for the campaign says it’s to promote safe sex, but if that’s the case (not that condoms make sex safe anyway), one has to wonder why a map would need to be included, let alone a ranking of the sexual activity. The truth is, the more desensitized we become to anything, the easier it is to do it. And Planned Parenthood counts on the culture thinking sex is some playtime activity; it’s all part of the campaign to neutralize us.

Of course, Planned Parenthood really loves its money, so one has to wonder what’s in it for them to give out so many condoms. Perhaps statistics from the American Pregnancy Association might help us understand:

The typical use of male condoms, which is the average way most people use them, has a failure rate of 14-15%. This means that 14-15 people out of every 100 will become pregnant during the first year of use. Spermicidal agents increase the effectiveness to over 95% when used correctly and consistently. 

Notice that the Planned Parenthood campaign is for condoms only. There’s no education, no additional information or products passed out. And as the abortion provider likes to tell people, birth control fails and people “need” abortions. If you give people condoms, encourage them to use them, check in via social networking, and rate their sexual activity, then you have a nice little hold when they use them wrong and need help when they are pregnant. We all know what Planned Parenthood’s “help” looks like. Where else would you turn but your free condom provider who will then help you get "rid" of your pregnancy? It’s brilliant but tragic marketing.

Additionally, Planned Parenthood’s social networking site for the condom wearing check-in Where Did You Wear It? reports that condoms are effective 98% of the time. Well, yes, when used correctly, which you can find only if you click on the links and then eventually get to the section that explains this is only true when “always” used correctly. It’s misleading to create social networking and in brightly colored print advertise condoms like some magical solution for free sex without consequence. This isn’t true—even if it were moral. It’s neither.

This isn’t just a Washington State campaign, however:

Check-ins, says Kristen Glundberg-Prossor, PPGNW’s public-affairs director, have already come from all 50 states and six continents; local campuses receiving the QR coded condoms include all three University of Washington Campuses, University of Puget Sound, The Evergreen State College, Pacific Lutheran University, and many community colleges.

The paper reports that it’s National Condom Week and nationwide Planned Parenthoods are participating. Once again, the mega abortion provider is using any back door it can to lure more young people into its folds. Don’t be fooled. As one story reports:

The website is dedicated to promoting safe sex and normalizing condom use, according to Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest. The experiment encourages college students and millennials who are already comfortable with social media to promote healthy sexuality and who are “proud to wear protection.”

Normalizing is a fancy word for neutralizing and desensitizing. The more common we think something is, the easier it is to do it—no matter the consequences.