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It’s not like he needs the money, but it’s certainly a worthy cause. Trojan, the company that sells roughly 70 percent of the latex doodads men slip over their junk, is offering Johnny Depp $10 million to become the public face of male contraception. Depp is an advocate of safe sex, and the Safer Sex Awareness Campaign has already said he’d help to raise public awareness of the issue. According to a spokesperson: “We’d welcome seeing a major Hollywood star helping to promote the cause. And there’s no one bigger than Johnny.” According to the link, Trojan also thinks Depp could boost sales of their larger Magnum condoms. But let’s just leave that joke alone, okay?

All kidding aside, Depp seems like an unusual choice for a condom spokesmodel. Sure, he’s a nice enough guy, reasonably good looking, and he behaves fairly responsibly, considering he’s an actor. But it’s not an obvious match-up, like Lindsay Lohan and chewable strawberry-flavored Valtrex tabs, or Jamie Lynn Spears and the Bratz home pregnancy test kit. Still, if Depp does decide to promote safe sex in a big way, then he can burnish his nice-guy credentials and make a little coin at the same time.