Captain Condom To The Rescue...

STOCKHOLM - Amorous couples in quick need of protection can dial the telephone number 696969 and the condom ambulance will come to their rescue. The ambulance, a white van with a large red condom with wings as a logo, will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics.

"We need to increase the usage of condoms," said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education, the non-governmental organization behind the initiative. "It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases."

The service will run until June 25 and is available between four in the afternoon and nine at night. "We need to change attitudes to condoms," Osvald said. "If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it."