There's a very interesting story about Aiisa (აიისა) - the first condom-producing company in conservative Georgia that I learned from a book Pokazucha. Na gruzińskich zasadach by Stasia Budzisz. You better fasten your seatbelts:
The first Georgian company that produces condoms was founded in 2017 and immediately became famous. Aiisa has set itself the goal of fighting stereotypes about sex and sexuality - that what is declared on its Facebook profile. It encourages potential buyers with Georgian accents. On the packaging there are: a statue of Mother Georgia, which towers over the capital with the inscription: I do not want to be your mother!, two fingers in a condom folded as if for an Orthodox blessing; Queen Tamara in ecstasy with the inscription: Tamara's Royal Entrance and the slogans Sex with ex, Say no to hand job.
There is also a political series: Stal In, Kim Chan In or Put In. By the way, the latter politician has several variations: with an umbrella and the slogan Every dick needs protection (this is an occasional condom, introduced on the market on the 10th anniversary of the so-called Five-Day-War) and on a horse with the slogan: Old Russian athletic man riding many dirty ways.
Aiisa did not get away with battling the monotony of the condom market. On March 20, 2018, the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church accused the company of offending the feelings of believers, blasphemy and immoral behavior. The Tbilisi City Hall, at the instigation of the right-wing nationalist group Georgian Idea, took the case to court. In April, students from the Georgian Theological Seminary came out to protest against "obscene" condoms. They gathered outside the former parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue and called on the state to protect Christian society from insults. The inhabitants of Kutaisi in the western part of Georgia came to the rescue and demanded that the owners of the company be punished. In May, a court in Tbilisi ruled that Aiisa's company offends national morality and dignity. He imposed a fine of 500 lari on it for using the image of Tamara, whom the Georgian Orthodox Church included among the saints, and ordered the withdrawal of several iconoclastic designs from sale.
The company has not recalled any of the models and continues to sell them online for 3.30 lari, but for a while safe sex became an ideological battlefield in Georgia.
That's all I got. It's like the last thing I'd expect happening in a conservative country. And I'd say it's a good theme for a book if not for the fact that I read it in a book😆 Now you can easily Google for more about it! And also check out Aiisa facebook profile, their stuff would make great collectibles😉
Anyway I can't imagine anything of this scale in Poland (we also have Blasphemy Law but it's just enough to put a rainbow halo on the Mother Mary from Częstochowa to get arrested at 6:10 a.m. Final verdict of District Court's is that - what a surprise! - "rainbow is not offending" but still it took almost 3 years and a lot of shit on the way: see this article on oko.press and links inside it too)







