Colleges that provide easily-accessible free safe sex supplies are already rad, but it certainly doesn’t to do something a little more playful than ‘here are a bunch of baskets with condoms, dental dams and other fun stuff’ too.
Case in point: the mysterious college that Redditor ParadeOfTigers attends, which uses Pokémon references to promote safe sex — so it’s a little more elaborate than just giving out supplies and telling people about STDs. Pictures of starter Pokémon have been hopefully glued and not stapled to Trojans, for example — in my perfect world there is actually a difference between the Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur condoms (which would obviously mean Bulbasaur is the awful flavored condoms because those are seriously The Worst*), but probably not.
Various STDs are also personified as fake Pokémon, too, and it seems they were rather clever about it. Gonorrhea, for example, is a ghost type — because you may not show symptoms if you have it. Get it?
And oh, hey. There’s a Zelda reference in here too. Gotta love nerdy residential assistants!
*This is a joke, Bulbasaur is not the worst. (Maybe.)
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This is what happens when when you don’t use string-shot responsibly.
The disease “Pokemon” are actually plush microbes: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/6708/
I’ve always been impressed with how Caterpie can use string-shot before learning harden.
The problem is that the only disease in the Pokemon universe is beneficial…
Your a bit late to the party Kotaku, this has been going on for years.