Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Applications Condoms For Safe Sex

New York City Health Department launched an application that helps people to find the location nearest condom machines from their positions.

Assistant Commissioner of New York City Health Department, Monica Sweeney says the government wants to make the City of New York as the safest place in the world to have sex. "Many people who come here and we want them to make safer sex," he said as quoted by the Telegraph, today.

The application of condoms, he said, can be downloaded through the Android phone and iPhone. In the application, available in more than a thousand locations that provide free condoms.

By using GPS technology, the user just enter the address or location where they are then you will see five places nearby providing information machine for free condoms.

Over the last five years, the New York Health Department has distributed about 3 million condoms each month. Busiest city in the United States had also been under fire because by providing free condoms would encourage parents and young people to have sex.

But Sweeney dismissed these allegations. According to him, both parents and teens still will have sex regardless of whether they use condoms or not. "Obviously we're not promoting sex, we encourage safer sex," says Sweeney.