Have UCD set up the most trollable website ever?

hidinginthebush

So UCD Students Union Welfare gave out 1000 condoms to celebrate world contraception day, nothing wrong with that. They then number these condoms and subsequently set up a website encouraging people to submit stories on how they used said condoms

link

for those on phones:

UCD Students’ Union marked World Contraception Day on the 26th of September by giving out one thousand free condoms. The original plan was for each condom to be numbered, and for each owner of a numbered condom to post their story of how they used it on the 1000condoms.com website, which has accumulated twenty-one stories at the time of going to print. According to UCD’s Welfare Officer Rachel Breslin, the plan encountered some difficulty, “The issue arose that even when we posted it on Facebook before [World Contraception Day], people were saying ‘I want to get involved, what if I’m not in that day and don’t get a condom?’”.
It was then decided that the numbering would be scrapped, but the website (1000condoms.com) would stay up and condoms would still be given out, which allowed the campaign to spread further than the 1,000 recipients of a free condom, as everyone was now encouraged to share their stories.
“Sex is for everyone. It can be good or bad, or very mediocre!” jokes Breslin, but she also points out that there is no pressure to do it now; “I was very keen to make sure that people didn’t feel pressured into having sex”.
As well as recording past experiences, Breslin says the website can be used to say “I haven’t found someone, this is what happened to my condom” and says “that would actually be a really good outcome of the campaign”.
Breslin deemed the campaign economical, “if we look at what was done around sexual health in the past there were workshops, we had various demonstrators in and I looked at those, and they cost money – they cost more money than we spent on the posters and the condoms, which we already ordered in anyway, so I certainly feel it was very cost effective”.
The idea for the campaign came from people being “a little bit afraid to talk about sex, and if they are talking about sex it’s more the whole “laddish” idea or the “laddish” concept of sex and that all sex is great and that they maybe have to make up a myth about their sexual experiences” explains Breslin, “so what I wanted was a campaign that encouraged people to wear condoms but to encourage more conversation about it and get people to talk about their bad experiences of sex, which do exist”.
Breslin says that she is “really pleased with how it’s gone and I think it has encouraged open dialogue about sex; it really put forward the message that people have had experiences that were awkward, experiences that were clumsy… it is ok to talk about it”.

Now call me old fashioned, but should a university really be asking 1,000 people to write about their sex lives? [goes off to troll website]

4leto

LOL
Yeah it would be better then marking exams.

BBDBB

OP
you may want to consider changing your user name if you do

Dravokivich

Just hope that bush of your's presents you with a good vantage point to view from.

parker kent

Just to note that UCD have not set this up, but the UCD Students’ Union have set this up.

So students do stupid things=wow big shock

Note: The website is the stupid thing, not the actual campaign.

hidinginthebush

parker kent wrote: »

Just to note that UCD have not set this up, but the UCD Students’ Union have set this up.

So students do stupid things=wow big shock

Note: The website is the stupid thing, not the actual campaign.

ooops, edited

But yeah, while I agree with the campaign, I don't see the point of the website myself

Jesus Wept

UCD are retarded. I already knew that though.

danniemcq

Makes some change, when my uncle was in college he bought some condoms in the student union and when he walked out the door the guards raided the place because of them selling them!

mickydoomsux

Its a disgrace Joe.

Condoms Joe.

Its a disgrace. It was Romanians Joe.

bluto63

What's so bad about that? They're just looking for people to put funny stories about experiences in their past, seems relatively harmless to me.

padd b1975

hidinginthebush wrote: »

So UCD Students Union Welfare gave out 1000 condoms to celebrate world contraception day, nothing wrong with that. They then number these condoms and subsequently set up a website encouraging people to submit stories on how they used said condoms

link

for those on phones:

Now call me old fashioned, but should a university really be asking 1,000 people to write about their sex lives? [goes off to troll website]

UCD forum??

syklops

1000 Condoms, 1000 stories, only 658 views (so far).

syklops

bluto63 wrote: »

What's so bad about that? They're just looking for people to put funny stories about experiences in their past, seems relatively harmless to me.

Thats basically what AH is for too. But wait til the Mods all go for a smoke break together and you will see some of the stuff that gets posted. Encouraging gold-fish eating students to write stories about their sex lives is asking for troll shenanigans of the highest order.

parker kent

The-Rigger wrote: »

UCD are retarded. I already knew that though.

I'll refer you to my earlier post (plus if you actually read the OP you would realise it too).

parker kent wrote: »

Just to note that UCD have not set this up, but the UCD Students’ Union have set this up.

whubee

Do they have a returns policy?

Biggins

They say a picture paints a thousand words.

I want the damn pictures!!!!!

...Pretty please?

maygitchell

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Its a disgrace Joe.

Condoms Joe.

Its a disgrace. It was Romanians Joe.

Hello joe, mickey from clontaaarrff got it wrong joe, there not romanians joe, theyre romas, theyre the tinkerish ones. I had a romanian working for me once joe, lovely lad, big pair of balls on him, had an awful tendency to shout "GET IT DOWN YOU ZULU WARRIOR" down the phone, still a tidy worker but a bit of a racist, always giving out about the French,


Anyway joe these toll roads are a disgrace...