Comments on: South Korean Condom Sales Rise After North Korean Nuke Test

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:27:38 +0000

Or were South Koreans simply more reluctant than before to bring children into this crazy world?

Well, if they are using condoms, sounds like they still don't want kids to come into this crazy world!

By: madmatt

madmatt — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:51:43 +0000

maybe nobody wants to risk potential birth defects

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:46:11 +0000

I think the phenomenon has been noted before, but it is usually linked to a desire to pass ones genes along. It would seem the condoms are an intellectual compromise to a biological imperative. Insert Woody Allen joke here.

I remember my wife buying toilet paper in the run up to the first gulf war. She remembered stories from her parents of shortages during WWII and she wasn't going to be caught stranded on the toilet bowl. I tried to explain to her that while the stories of rationing during WWII were likely real, the economic efforts for the first gulf war were not likely to recreate such a condition. I think we worked through the last of our TP stock during Clinton's second term.

After 9/11, she did not feel a need for a similar type of emergency stores stock piling.

By: donsurber

donsurber — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:58:22 +0000

I would have thought the toilet paper sales would have risen.

But that's just me.

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:54:10 +0000

Time to make whoopee?...

Some news from South Korea.

As tends to be the case in disasters and crises, sales of condoms and reservations at motels surged in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear test on Oct. 9. One online hotel reservations site reports that everything is ......

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:40:15 +0000

Or were South Koreans simply more reluctant than before to bring children into this crazy world?

By: legion

legion — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:35:13 +0000

Yeah, Mark! I vote for a new slogan:
"Make love and war!"

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:32:46 +0000

Then perhaps we should let Iran get a nuke - if it lets some of us get some.

Nukes for nookie! heh.

By: Relevant History

Relevant History — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The chain starts with this bullet in Wonkette-- South Korean panic over North Korean nuclear ambitions being assuaged by copious amounts of life-affirming sex. --with a link to a post on Outside the Beltway. That post, in turns, references the Foreign Policy blog post noting that South Koreans are taking to the sheets to relieve stress triggered by Kim Jong-Il's nuclear test. Condom sales and motel bookings are way up

By: Felicity’s Journal

Felicity’s Journal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

South Korean Condom Sales Rise After North Korean Nuke Test

By: Heavy-Handed Politics

Heavy-Handed Politics — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test As tends to be the case in disasters and crises, sales of condoms and reservations at motels surged in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear test on Oct. 9. One online hotel reservations site reports

By: Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Media Matters] Iraqi Insurgents For Lamont to begin airing campaign ads. [The Carpetbagger Report] South Korean panic over North Korean nuclear ambitions being assuaged by copious amounts of life-affirming sex. [Outside the Beltway] Roll Call steals our idea, improves it by using research tools other than Google. [TPM Muckraker] The Swiss cheese memory of Dennis Hastert strikes again as he replaces “forgotten” facts with made up ones. [