Safety Through Joylessness

In the college where I work there are these public service announcement posters promoting safer sex through condom use. This is all fine and good, but there are two problems: One, what the girl appears to be about to unwrap looks suspiciously like a lollipop - get your minds out of the gutter, I would be alone - and Two, the rather blasé demeanour of the young couple featured makes me think that there ought to be an accompanying speech bubble that reads “Right, let’s get this thing over with.” And today, for some reason, this image seemed to me to be a premonition of a dystopian future in which a rather canny set of killjoys manage to take the fun out of sex by making it mandatory. This would possibly even be a logical extension of our current societal attitudes towards sexuality, come to think of it.