Pretty dresses, aren't they? I saw them on the "Mental Floss" blog. They're made by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini and they're on display at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles until March 11.
Here's the kicker: the dresses are made entirely from discarded condoms that couldn't pass the quality control test at the factory. It's part of an AIDS awareness push and there are 14 outfits in the entire collection.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I do know that unprotected sex outside of marriage is not good. For that matter, any sex outside of marriage is probably not a good thing, but it would be sheer lunacy on our part to think it's going to stop.
Now, unprotected sex inside of marriage leads to a whole different set of issues, but I'll leave that by for another time.
Of course, no one has yet come up with a better solution for preventing sexually-transmitted diseases than abstinence.
But if a woman had the nerve to wear one of these things, I'm wondering what kind of message it would actually send...?
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