Condom Sales Surge After World Cup Win

It turns out goals aren't the only thing associated with World Cup wins. According to one web site, a win at the tournament helped out a seemingly unrelated industry.

AFP reports that South Korea's victory over Greece led to a surge in condom sales, with one paper writing that sales increased five-fold over 2006, when the country failed to advance out of the first round.

Soccer victories aren't the only way the sport contributes to increased contraceptive sales. In March it was reported that a stunning one billion condoms were needed in South Africa, and 40,000 sex workers are estimated to work during the tournament.

Comments

[ghee99]

08:25 AM on 06/18/2010

typical sports fans

"hey my team won, guess i'll go get a hooker"

man, as a group, sports fans have to be the biggest looozers ever!

[AppleJuiceJunkie316]

07:33 PM on 06/17/2010

Here's why Sub-Sahara Africa has such high rates of AIDS. 1 billion condoms, but their using 40,000 sex workers. The sex workers are the disease spreaders and the condoms, though they help, are probably being taken off or the people are messing around during foreplay infecting themselves before wrapping it up. Sex workers are disease spreaders and the myth of having sex with virgins help spread STIs. God, get some people down there to talk some sense into everyone. STIs are no joke!

[audadvnc]

02:01 PM on 06/17/2010

Help me with this. If my favorite soccer star is wearing a condom, then he's not naked, right? And if he's not naked, how can it be porn? They should put up on YT some of those non-porn, 1-on-1 interactions between soccer stars and their, er, fans.

[ghee99]

08:27 AM on 06/18/2010

most soccer players (with their shorty-shorts, and shaved legs), if they are being romantic, its gonna be with another guy

[imperator prime]

12:05 PM on 06/17/2010

This is an awfully fluffy take on a story that should have people incensed.

"It was reported that a stunning one billion condoms were needed in South Africa, and 40,000 sex workers are estimated to work during the tournament."

I also saw it reported that-- amid this *need* for 'one billion' condoms while people are engaged in celebratory f**king (many of them with sex workers) in a country with one of the highest HIV infection rates on Earth-- FIFA has (cock)blocked several organizations from distributing condoms during the world cup. Because those organizations and the condom companies weren't Official Sponsors of the tournament.

Any and *every* news item covering (or even alluding to) all the sex going on around the tournament should be absolutely hammering this point. People should know. FIFA is deliberately impeding the distribution of condoms, during a huge f**kfest in a host country *ravaged* by AIDS, because they're beholden to advertisers who care more about cornering market-share than human lives. It's willful endangerment on a massive scale, and any news outlet that mentions "world cup sex" while leaving out this stark detail is guilty of negligence at best, complicity at worst.

[ghee99]

08:28 AM on 06/18/2010

i just feel sorry for the sex workers

no one should have to degrade themselves to such depths as to have to have "relations" with a sports fan

yeuck!

[O K Ali]

12:48 AM on 06/17/2010

What happens at World Cup stays at World Cup, except for Herpes. That tends to stay with you.

[olddognewtrick]

04:36 PM on 06/16/2010

guess they can't keep their hands off of each other on...or off the field.

[jubo]

08:04 AM on 06/16/2010

What?? The dude told me it was a vuvuzela holder.

[Roci]

05:42 AM on 06/16/2010

I wonder if this is what they mean when they say "She's a soccer mom"
And I just have to wonder: At a certain "intense moment" near the end of "World Cup" inspired intimacy, who gets to shout "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!" ?

[GrizzlyBowman]

02:20 AM on 06/16/2010

Was it the WC win, or the subtitled release of How to Train Your Dragon?

[iLoveOldNY]

10:13 PM on 06/15/2010

I'm buying a ticket to Brazil. Imagine Rio AFTER Brazil wins.

[Donna McGregor]

06:54 PM on 06/15/2010

That's the best thing I've ever seen relating to soccer. Who knew?

[manfriday]

11:40 PM on 06/15/2010

Its football, not soccer.

[TStringfellow]

05:41 PM on 06/15/2010

Good lord, a nation of horned up Korean girls? Anyone want to loan me money for a plane ticket?

[lafayette2009]

05:49 PM on 06/15/2010

Don't think you'll find many Korean girls in South Africa.

If you need to borrow money for the plane ticket, you ain't got much chance of enjoying "horned up girls" of any nationality. lol

[TStringfellow]

07:10 PM on 06/15/2010

Do any of you guys in the HP sports section actually know how to read?

The article is talking about SOUTH KOREA.

As far as your last comment goes: If you know how to talk to people, and don't look like a complete mutant, you can actually spend time with women without paying for it.

[lafayette2009]

05:26 PM on 06/15/2010

"In March it was reported that a stunning one billion condoms were needed in South Africa, and 40,000 sex workers are estimated to work during the tournament."

The tournament is on for 30-days so that equals 33,333,333 condoms per day with a few - 10 actually - to spare. If you just account for 40,000 "sex workers" it is 833 per worker per day with a few (10) each to spare.

As there are only 1,440 minutes in a day, it gives a whole new meaning to a "quickie." ;) \:\

[jdrourke]

04:16 PM on 06/15/2010

There are sooo many jokes to make, I'm freezing up at all the possibilities...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/dear-soccer-football/

[love u]

04:14 PM on 06/15/2010

condoms are made from oil products.

[kinoptikation]

04:42 PM on 06/15/2010

You're a bigger buzz-kill than Buzz Killington

[MathIsTruth]

04:45 PM on 06/15/2010

which calls to mind the "drill, baby, drill" double entendre...

[lilyv8]

05:34 PM on 06/15/2010

that's what she said! sorry, I had to