This paper examines Irish campaigns for condom access in the early 1990s. Against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, activists campaigned against a law which would not allow condoms to be sold from ordinary commercial spaces or vending machines, and restricted sale to young people. Advancing a conception of ‘transformative illegality’, we show that illegal action was fundamental to the eventual legalisation of commercial condom sale. However, rather than foregrounding illegal condom sale as a mode of spectacular direct action, we show that tactics of illegal sale in the 1990s built on 20 years of everyday illegal sale within the Irish family planning movement. Everyday illegal sale was a long-term world-making practice, which gradually transformed condoms’ legal meanings, eventually enabling new forms of provocative and irreverent protest. Condoms ‘became legal’ when the state recognised modes of condom sale, gradually built up over many years and publicised in direct action and in the courts.

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转化性非法：1991 年至 1993 年，爱尔兰的避孕套如何“合法化”

本文考察了 1990 年代初期爱尔兰的安全套获取运动。在艾滋病危机的背景下，活动人士反对一项法律，该法律不允许在普通商业场所或自动售货机上销售避孕套，并限制向年轻人销售。提出“转化性非法”的概念，我们表明非法行为是商业安全套销售最终合法化的基础。然而，我们并没有将非法避孕套销售作为一种壮观的直接行动模式，而是展示了 1990 年代的非法销售策略建立在爱尔兰计划生育运动 20 年的日常非法销售之上。日常非法销售是一种长期的世界实践，它逐渐改变了安全套的法律含义，最终促成了新形式的挑衅和不敬的抗议。