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Boise Condom Shop Coupon Gets Censored

By Alison Go

September 2, 2008 RSS Feed Print

A coupon for a Boise State condom shop has been manually ripped out of 15,000 coupon books that are being distributed around campus, the Arbiter writes. The publisher removed the coupons after the campus bookstore, one of its main distributors, threatened to stop passing out the booklets because it had received complaints from parents, students, and faculty. The publisher hired two temp workers (poor souls) to tear out all those pages over the course of three days.

The "stunned" shop owner says the same coupon has appeared in the booklet for years, and this is the first time any controversy has arisen.

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Nice post, thanks for writing!

seolace of AL 7:34PM May 06, 2010

In this day and age when the average person has sex around 16 or 17 is it any wonder that we have teenage mothers coming from conservative families that pretend sex won't happen to their children. Sarah Palin is an example of that. Her daughter might not be forced into an early adulthood if her mother or father had opened their eyes to reality and at least said, "Don't do it, but if you do at least protect yourself." Now she is being pressured into becoming a mother and a wife before she has finished being a child.

Rob Curry-Smithson of 12:13PM September 03, 2008

So much for freedom of speech, thought and advertising. But SOMEHOW those Viagra, Cialis, Levitra ads will keep going in front of your six-year-olds. Funny how that works, ain't it?

Size matters---when it's corporations.

of 10:31PM September 02, 2008

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