Extra small condoms for 12-year-old boys is blatant exploitation of children

A leading Swiss condom manufacturer marketing extra small condoms aimed at 12-year-old boys in Switzerland, has said that marketing the product in the UK would be a ‘top priority’ given our high teenage pregnancy rate.

This is the blatant exploitation of children to make money. It’s mindboggling that family planning groups in Switzerland campaigned to have these condoms made.

They say they are needed because young boys “do not have very developed sexual knowledge” and “they do not understand the consequences of what they are doing.” That is because they are children – and children shouldn’t be having sex!

We would invite all parents of boys of this age to ask themselves how they would feel knowing that a special condom called “Hotshot” was being targeted at their children. It is a horrifying thought.

Children deserve so much more – more respect and trust – and more of our time to guide and nurture them. To give 12-year-olds the green light to be sexually active is at best neglectful and at worst child abuse.