Here's an unconventional approach to promoting safe sex. Instead of warning viewers about pregnancy or STDs, this campaign focuses on a different affliction personified by two testicles named Rusty and Vern, who've got the blues real bad—the Blue Balls Blues—and want to tell you all about it through song.

The website explains:

"Rusty and Vern are a pair of balls on a mission. A mission to save mankind from big, bulging problems. Hailed as the rallying cry for any testicle that's ever suffered from man's eternal struggle to remember condoms, their debut single has critics buzzing, ladies applauding, and guys singing a different tune. So watch the video, enjoy the melody, but do mind their message. This is no labor of love for ol' Rusty and Vern. This, like so many blues greats before them, is the only way they could find release."

The work is from the creative team of John Lightstone, Antonio Marcato, Jon Barco and Brittany Weltner, with help from T2 Studios and Big Foote Music & Sound. You can even download the MP3 (“Sounds like how getting kicked in the nuts feels"). Posters and full credits after the jump.

CREDITS

Creative Team

Writer: John Lightstone

Art Directors: Antonio Marcato, Jon Barco

Junior Art Director: Brittany Weltner

Music: Big Foote Music & Sound

Executive Producer: Paul Seymour

Arrangers: Chris Jordão, Sherman Foote

Sound Design: Chris Jordão, Sherman Foote

Writers: Chris Jordão, Sherman Foote, John Lightstone

Singer: John Margolis

Harmonica: Mark Grandfield

Guitar: Chris Jordão

Production: T2 Studios

Creative Director: Travis Schlitter

Puppet Construction: Jeremy Casper

Director of Photography: Andy Romero

Puppeteers: Brandon Duncan, Adam Buritsch, Jon Barco, Antonio Marcato, Jeremy Casper

Motion Design: Brandon Duncan, Adam Buritsch, Sean McKeon

Animation: Brandon Duncan, Adam Buritsch, Sean McKeon, Joseph Sullivan

Illustration: Brandon Duncan, Adam Buritsch

Editors: Nick Stout, Jon Bazata

3-D Modeling: Sean McKeon, Joseph Sullivan

3-D Tracking: Sean McKeon

Smoke Artist: Nick Balda

Executive Producers: Teri Rogers, Ethan Downing

Assistant Producer: Reid Bangert

Production Assistant: Steven Bartkoski

Grip: Matt Blume

Online Presence: Benjamin Vanasse