Here’s an interesting microcause for the day: Cure CVS Now, an organization hoping to unlock CVS’s condom cases across America or, as the organization accuses, only in neighborhoods with more people of color. Ouch. CCN suggests that CVS is stigmatizing condom use by making people ask to access them.

At the Walgreens in my diverse neighborhood plenty of things are locked up, including: fancy razorblades, deodorant, Sudafed of course, tooth whitening systems, and baby formula. How do you counter a company’s attempt to stop people from shoplifting the most frequently shoplifted items? Is that a matter of civil equality after all?

To be honest, I’d rather the 14- or 15-year-olds who want to be sexually active, or ANYONE who can’t afford birth control, just shoplift the damn condoms and not have unwanted babies. Hell, if people are stealing the condoms, maybe each CVS should spend a little money every month and buy a huge sack of condoms from Planned Parenthood or a local AIDS prevention organization or something, then sell them to customers for ten cents or a quarter.

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