A friend of mine passed on this link to a really cute AIDS prevention video.  It’s the kind of thing you’ll never see here in the Excitable States of America.  What makes this video so remarkable, and I think far more likely to drive its point home, is that it isn’t so much about having sex, as finding love in a world that seems horribly stacked against it.  You watch this thing and by the end you’re really on the edge of your seat wondering if this poor little lost cuteling will ever find love, and cheering when he finally does.  And as the lovers drive off into the sunset, the film makers drop the message on you…and it works brilliantly.

It’s done with computer animated characters and the hero of the piece is just adorable (see above!), it’s hilarious in spots (and a tad unsafe for work in others so be warned.  This was obviously made somewhere that human sexuality isn’t considered a wicked dirty thing) and the message is a positive one, not a negative one; not an appeal to fear, but to hope and dreams of love.  The religious right would collectively have kittens if anything like this was produced here in the U.S.  Let’s hear it for the Internet.

[Update…]  I had to update the link because the original location wasn’t playing this video anymore.  The good news is it’s all over YouTube now and it wasn’t when I first posted this.  I’ve linked to the one I thought had the best video quality.

Also…a reader was looking for the song played here and I think would have missed it if not for seeing a pingback from another post in the comments.  It’s Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes.