All Intensive Purposes

"When we talked about condoms, we would show how to use them on a stick," says Shin, grabbing the golf club from the corner of his office to demonstrate. "But one day I went to a village and there were these condoms hanging on the fence posts. So I asked why they were there. The woman replied that after they had finished doing 'what married people do', they had put the condoms on the sticks as contraception.

Anna Fifield, "Korea's childminder," Financial Times W1 (July 8/July 9, 2006).