of Sex and Education

Funny thing I noticed when I went grocery shopping yesterday. After having skillfully balanced a box of a feminine hygiene product, a bottle of detergent, a pack of scrub sponges, my beanie, gloves and scarf, I ended up at the stationary section looking for writing paper. You really didn't need to know my shopping list for the day but whatever. Anyways, having picked out the kind of writing paper I wanted out of the huge selection available I turn around only to be faced with... a shelf full of condoms lubricants and various sexually enticing products that I really don't want to mention here. Mind you, this right next to the innocently colourful notebooks, post-it notes and highlights.

Here's my question; WHY ARE THE CONDOMS RIGHT BY THE STATIONARY?

I came to 3 possibilities;

1. The managers are tapping into the market of horny college boys in the business of buying notebooks and pens. I mean, every college kid needs stationary and by default of course every college kids needs a condom too right?

2. They're trying to advocate safe sex. So while you're in for just an innocent little box of bright yellow pencils, don't forget to grab yourself some condoms for the road!  

3. The people who planned the layout of the place was a 5-year-old boy with a crayon and mahjong paper. 

Whatever the reason, of course it falls back to the cultural aspect of it. Why I find it peculiar is because no way were you be able to find an entire shelf of kinky bedroom helpers in Malaysia. If I were in a tiny little grocery store/pharmacy like this back home, you'd have to HUNT for a condom. And if you found it in less than 3 minutes, chances are you picked up a packet of gum that looks like a box of condoms.

Sex is taken so lightly here. Whatever happened to the days when it was a big deal?