Normally I don't like fear-based campaigns...

[Scooter]

...but this one was cute:

A Brazilian condom company is scaring young men into using protection by sending them Facebook friend requests from their unborn baby boys.

"To show youngsters how important it is to use condoms, we decided to give them virtual sense. We chose some young men and created their sons' profiles," explains a YouTube video promoting the campaign.

The fake babies have the same names as the targeted men, but with "Jr." affixed to the end. The profile pics show a bouncing baby boy.

The friend invite is accompanied by the message: "Avoid unexpected surprises like this. Use Ollo condoms."

[Crackpot]

He's almost as cute as Erik might backfire.

[Sue U]

Too cute. You want to deter unwanted pregnancy, show teenagers the films of childbirth that are shown in Lamaze classes. They may never have sex again.

[Guinevere]

Or play them recordings of a hungry baby, or a baby with gas, or a baby that can't sleep --- and make sure the recordings go off at random intervals throughout the night.

[Sue U]

Or play them recordings of a hungry baby, or a baby with gas, or a baby that can't sleep --- and make sure the recordings go off at random intervals throughout the night.

For three straight months.

[Guinevere]

Only three? I was thinking a year.

[Sue U]

Come on, I'm not that much of a sadist.

[Guinevere]

These are teenagers we're talking about. It would take more than three-months for anything to penetrate their self-absorbed, hormone-riddled brains.

[BoSoxGal]

Perhaps they should include a child support schedule for the potential 'baby daddies' to consider - that'll sell some condoms!

[Beer Sponge]

Sue, Guin, bsg, I like all these suggestions. Nothing like a little reality to encourage better decision making.

[Scooter]

Someone at YouTube needs to give their head a shake. The video posted in the OP, designed to encourage young men to use condoms, "has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten."

[rubato]

Time and again they've shown that the most effective anti-drug education for teens is to tell the whole truth without any hysterics or fear-mongering. But someone does have to take the time to show them what the consequences of unintended pregnancy and parenthood are as well as tell them about effective birth control and the details of conception.

"Abstenance-only" has failed every time because it is a lie by omission. Teens need the whole truth, not just the part that religious nutcases are comfortable with.

yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

Or play them recordings of a hungry baby, or a baby with gas, or a baby that can't sleep --- and make sure the recordings go off at random intervals throughout the night.

Wouldn't bother me. I have two traits that make me immune to that: I am a heavy sleeper with some hearing loss. I can sleep through ANYTHING...most recently, not one but THREE alarms (two clocks & my phone) going off at the same time.