NO DUREX, WE DON’T NEED A CONDOM EMOJI

There are a lot of things we need in this world, but a condom emoji isn’t one of them. International condom brand Durex believes we need one, and is taking the necessary steps to get one made.Look, Durex, we get it. It’s in your best interest for a condom design to be added to the keyboard of the million other useless emojis (and the dozen or so useful ones). Even just suggesting it is great marketing to remind people that you’re the biggest prophylactics brand not named after an ancient nationality (or a war, a wooden horse, USC, etc.), but is it really going to make people use protection more — or in a smarter way?For starters, does anyone really use all of the emojis consistently? Probably not. There are the 10 to 20 you use all the time, while the rest take a few minutes to find anytime you need them (and then there’s the few dozen that you have no idea what they are, what seems like an endless amount of flags, and some random geometric shapes thrown in for good measure.