Smith College professor Faye Crosby used the occasion of the school's annual Parents' Weekend to conduct a series of "condom relay races," during which parents and students competed against each other to see who could put five condoms on an unpeeled banana the fastest without breaking the banana.

But the event was soon criticized for "marginalizing lesbians" by mentioning, but not actually featuring, dental dams in the races. "It was as if you said, 'oh, well, here are the dental dams—boring, insignificant lesbian sex... Now let's get to the really great and fun heterosexual sex,' " Crosby quoted her critics as telling her. Crosby has since apologized for her "exclusionary" behavior, confessing, "I felt terrible!"

[Ed.: The University of California at Davis celebrated Valentine's Day, 1994, with a week-long, campus-wide "pin-the-condom-on-the-man contest."]

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