Yet there is an argument for even more condom machines in Germany: They potentially save lives.
True story: Quite recently in the northern part of Germany, two members of the Ahmadiyya
*** [Muslim(ish)] Community - man and wife, parents - were sentenced to life for murder of their young adult daughter. It was a Romeo and Juliet scenario, she loved an Ahmadiyya young man her age, but he came from a better-to-do family and the Ahmadiyyas generally have arranged marriages of the sect members to keep their community nice and tight. The parents from both sides intervene and forbid.
Yet Romeo and Juliet still meet, you can't keep them apart. The head of the sect (who is resident in London), perhaps wisely, declares:
"If we can't keep them apart, they must marry!" But the wealthier family of Romeo refuses the marriage and thereby humilates the poorer family of Juliet. Still, Romeo and Juliet continue to meet.
Juliet wants to buy condoms, but ashamed of the process of paying for them at the cashier (and, of course, as an Ahmadiyya girl she is not allowed to frequent discos where you might find a condom machine in the girls' restroom) she steals a pack of condoms instead. And gets inevitably caught, the not exactly street-wise Ahmadiyyas make bad shoplifters.The shop files a criminal complaint with the police, a police letter goes to her home, the parents open it and the father is enraged about (i) the theft, (ii) the condoms and (iii) that she still sees Romeo. Arguments are exchanged, some domestic violence and that night he suffocates his sleeping daughter in bed while his wife is watching from the door frame.
"To cleanse themselves from the humilation they feared in the Ahmadiyya Community, the only social network they had and were brought up in!" their criminal defense counsel later on pleaded. It didn't help, the (thoughtful) court slapped the maximum penalty on the parents (whose lives, I have no doubt, were ruined one way or another, even in the Ahmadiyya Community which was quick to point out how they did not condone at all what had tragically happened).
All because there wasn't a condom machine close to where she lived. How little things can sometimes matter greatly.
***No, the Ahmadiyyas are not Islamists, in fact they are severely prosecuted in most Islamic countries (especially in Pakistan, where most of them are from) because they are seen as heretics who believe that there was another prophet (incidentally the founder of their religion) after Muhammad. They are docile and gentle on the outside, advocating a non-violent Islam, yet - as sects tend to be - draconian with lots of peer pressure within their own community. Sort of Islamic Jehova's Witnesses, all smiles outside, but if you want to leave, well, you better not ...
