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 Should a condom be sent into space? It's the burning question some Swedes have posed. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT & Craig Rubadoux/AP 
 
 The Local · 27 Sep 2016, 16:29 
 
 Published: 27 Sep 2016 16:29 GMT+02:00 
 
 Swedes have a reputation for being sexually liberated types, but now some of them want to venture into a final frontier that even the Scandinavian nation hasn't reached by sending a condom into space. 
 
 Why? It’s all part of a campaign from the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU), which aims to promote the use of a contraceptive they hail as one of “the most important inventions of all time” by asking Nasa to propel one skywards. The condom in question has been dubbed the "Swedish Space Condom", naturally. 
 
 The RFSU has even put together a promotional video to aid their cause, complete with a shaky Swedish attempt at a Hollywood-style voice-over, which points out that “though we can’t be sure what alien sex organs look like, a condom might be handy if they decide to visit earth and find some hot earthlings”. Quite. 
 
 If all of that sounds a touch odd, it’s worth noting that Swedes seem to have a particular love of sending objects into space. 
 
 In 2015, The Local spoke to two Swedish brothers who used a weather balloon to launch a donut 32 kilometres above the surface of the earth for no real reason other than because nobody else had bothered to do it before. 
 
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 As for the condom, we’re not sure how much use it would actually be in space, but that’s for the aliens to find out. ||||| Published on Sep 25, 2016 
 
 SIGN THE PETITION TO GET NASA TO LAUNCH A SPACE CONDOM: http://www.rfsu.se/spacepetition 
 
 
 
 The condom is one of the most important inventions for people on earth. This small little latex thingy might look simple, but it is extremely important in letting every human decide about their own bodies and their own lives. 
 
 
 
 This is why RFSU, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, is trying to convince NASA to send the first condom into space: The Swedish Space Condom. 
 
 
 
 RFSU made this film as an open letter to NASA to explain why sending a condom into space is such a great idea. Read more at www.rfsu.se/swedishspacecondom 
 
 
 
 RFSU är Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning / The Swedish association for sexuality education. 
 
 
 
 Hemsida: http://www.rfsu.se 
 
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rfsu.se 
 
 Twitter: https://twitter.com/RFSU 
 
 Instagram: https://instagram.com/rfsu 
 
 
 
 Creative Direction: Arvid Wennel 
 
 Direction, Design and Animation: Johan Toorell 
 
 Sound Design: Fredrik Sundberg, Plop 
 
 Executive producer: Emma Güntner 
 
 
 
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– Sweden wants everyone talking about contraceptives. So in a voice-over video message to NASA, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) points out that the US has a long history of sending objects into outer space, and then proposes that NASA get to work on launching, well, a condom. The campaign coincides with World Contraception Day, which was last Monday, and should not be a surprising choice given the Scandinavian country's reputation for sexual liberty and, as the Local reports, advocating for objects to be sent into space. (Last year, Swedish brothers launched a doughnut 20 miles high just because no one had ever done it before.) The RFSU points out that the condom is one of civilization's greatest inventions. In the RFSU's pitch to NASA, which the group posted to YouTube, it points out that a condom could prove quite useful if aliens visit our planet and "find some hot Earthlings." But even more vital, the group says, the condom is "so important in letting every human decide about their own body and their own lives." In an interview with Vice, Emma Günter at RFSU says they chose this campaign because humor and surprise are some of the most effective ways to communicate important things. "That's what we want—for contraceptives to be prioritized, politically." She goes on to say that she believes in some kind of extraterrestrial life, and while she has "no idea what it might look like," she'd "love it if they got hold of a condom." (A Swedish sex toy company is also trying to revolutionize the condom.)