{"id":43730,"date":"2026-05-13T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/43730\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:51:07","slug":"toronto-offers-free-soccer-themed-condoms-for-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/43730\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto offers free soccer-themed condoms for FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/ADGVGY2VMVAVTCZYP5H2ROVWH4.JPG?auth=3c2fb201e0c9785ece1728c638e886214bb811df95407e3223eb46de207adccc&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Toronto City Hall in downtown Toronto, as the city begins its transformation ahead of the FIFA World Cup, on Tuesday.Wa Lone\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">As Toronto gears up for the World Cup, the city wants to help people score safely in the bedroom by offering free soccer-inspired condoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">With more than 300,000 visitors expected for the June 11-July 19 tournament, Toronto Public Health will be distributing limited edition condoms featuring six designs that \u201ccelebrate the energy of the games while promoting sexual health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The lineup includes \u201cBlock those shots!\u201d, \u201cWhat a finish!\u201d and \u201cPeaches &amp; Cream,\u201d with the latter\u2019s image featuring a peach and eggplant in front of a goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The condoms and other safer sex supplies will be offered at four TPH-operated sexual health clinics as part of the unit\u2019s CondomTO initiative to promote safer sex, reduce stigma and connect people with sexual health services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cStudies show that using a condom every time you have oral, anal or vaginal sex decreases the risk of sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBIs), HIV and\/or unplanned pregnancy,\u201d the unit said on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Canada co-hosts the World Cup alongside the U.S. and Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto City Hall in downtown Toronto, as the city begins its transformation ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[164,224,238,214,212,239,17,211,230,231,227,213,210,235,171,234,143,222,249,215,216,229,225,226,219,240,220,244,245,247,242,246,94,243,217,142,233,113,232,241,223,236,48,237,228,221,218,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-43730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-technology","50":"tag-toronto","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}