Adam & Eve
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The famous sex toy company headquartered not far from here which uses some of its profits to give the third world poor free condoms.
Adam & Eve evolved from the condom catalog, giving Harvey and Black the money they needed 35 years ago to start Population Services International, which today calls itself the world’s leading nonprofit social marketer. Black later started what is now Marie Stopes International, a London-based reproductive health nonprofit. Harvey founded DKT, naming it for the initials of D.K. Tyagi, an Indian pioneer in family planning.
But the Reagan administration hit him with obscenity charges over Adam & Eve’s operations that entangled him in nearly eight years of legal battles that continued into the Clinton years and cost him about US$3 million. He eventually pleaded guilty to one charge, a technicality for violating Alabama postal regulations, and paid a US$250,000 fine. The deal required Harvey to drop a civil suit against the U.S. Justice Department. It ended the case and allowed his business to continue.
U.S. porn mogul funds birth control and AIDS programs abroad
