Former President Mogae, who heads the Botswana government-backed AIDS Council, wants to see the decriminalization of gays even though he doesn't "understand it." Details after the jump.

Partying + excitement + dim lighting all conspire to decrease motivation for men to take the time to unwrap, unroll and align a condom. That's not exactly secret in the community. The makers of Sensis Condoms hope to streamline the fumbling process with a redesigned product that's being marketed to gay men. Details follow.

A prophylactic deemed "the Viagra condom" will likely hit store shelves later this year...

California’s Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) held a meeting last week to discuss altering its rules on condom usage in the adult film industry. 

To promote HIV/AIDS awareness and safe sex, Lady Gaga dressed as a latex condom for her Thursday appearance on Good Morning America.

Follow the jump for the video to watch the pop star discuss "Born This Way," the Grammy Awards and her work with MAC Viva Glam. 

In an effort to provide even more options for safe sex and to curb the troubling rate of HIV infection among younger gay men and gay men of color, San Francisco has made history as the first city in the country to distribute female condoms to gay men.

The FDA, and, for what it's worth, the Catholic Church, have not approved of the city's twist on the female condom. Follow the jump for a local news video report.

Do you think gay men will be willing to use female condoms?

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Regarding comments made by the Pope that became public yesterday regarding condom use, the Vatican has further qualified the ideas surrounding the church's approval of condom use, today saying that condoms are the lesser of two evils when used to combat the spread of AIDS, even if said condom use does prevent pregnancy. 

The Vatican still holds that condom use is immoral and that church doctrine forbidding birth control remains. Still, many religious experts say the reassessment on condom use carries profound significance, particularly in Africa where AIDS is rampant.

There’s a rubber revolution slowly brewing in the Vatican. In his new book, Pope Benedict has hinted a Catholic change of policy...

It's a topic that comes up time and time again, but next week, a state advisory board in California is set to seriously take up the issue of enforcing mandatory condom use in videos shot in state. The industry maintains that safeguards are already in place, including mandatory monthly HIV tests before actors are cleared for filming.

However, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation maintains that the current policies are not effective, particularly after the 2004 HIV outbreak within the porn industry that brought filming to a halt for a month. Last year, the L.A. Department of Public Health reported that 22 adult film stars tested positive—though no distinction was made between straight or gay porn.

The advisory board meeting on the subject has...

BB adult films may not be welcome in California much longer. If a new initiative filed by the California AIDS Healthcare Foundation amends state law, all porn actors working in the state will be required to wear condoms during production.

Michael Weinstein, President of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said, “Although workers in adult films should enjoy protections under the current phrasing of the regulation, the adult film industry has steadfastly refused to take any steps to protect its workers from diseases spread by blood-borne pathogens, resulting in thousands of employees becoming infected with sexually transmitted diseases."

What do you think about the initiative?