The Christian association Institute of Social Policy has demanded the withdrawal of the campaign by the Government of the Canary Islands that promotes the use of condoms during carnival to prevent contracting sexually transmitted diseases, considering it "pernicious, perverse, and vulgar".
The campaign plays with the image of a typical carnival instrument, the whistle, to launch this message: "Do whatever you want with your whistle, but if it sounds... 'Use a condom'".
The Institute of Social Policy, a private entity that has two former Vox leaders and a priest on its board of directors, maintains that it "violates basic constitutional principles, normalizes hypersexualization, and exposes minors and young people to explicit messages financed with public funds".
In its opinion, such messages infringe the administration's duty to "objectively serve the general interest and act in full submission to the law and justice".
This implies, in its opinion, that it cannot "use sexually explicit and degrading language" nor "disseminate messages financed with public funds without age control".
And all this, because it considers that the slogan of this safe sex campaign "normalizes hypersexualization in festive contexts" and "uses explicit language inappropriate for institutional communication".
