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Condom winners! And a spray-on condom for men?
I’ve been fretting over the condoms winners for too long now. It all started with that “Looking at me, you’d never guess that….” contest, and you made this very challenging. That because all of your responses are so darn good!
Emily says:
“Looking at me, you’d never guess that I haven’t been out on a date in months. Or …that I used to weigh over 200 lbs. Or…that I have three children.”
Liz adds:
“Looking at me, you’d never guess that last night I was sexy and charmed the pants off (not literally…although I could have if I’d wanted to) a single dad I was out on a date with. You’d never guess it because right now I’m unshowered, hungover, last night’s mascara smudged under my eyes and curled up on the sofa with my two boys…my two little loves.”
Single dad SDMktg says:
“Looking at me you’d never guess I read 9 parenting books before my twins were born, stayed home with them for the first 18 months and took 3 parenting classes after my divorce a year and a half later. I’ve made birthday cakes for all 6 birthday parties (and they both want their own) and I’m a gourmet cook as well as a master of the barbecue…”
So, what can I do? I’m sending condoms (in a tin like the photo above) to ALL 15 of you! You all deserve them.
I’ll contact you individually. Or feel free to email me your address: rachel[at]singlemomseeking[dot]com.
While we’re on condoms….
My BabyCenter colleague Beth Hering hit on a recent Time magazine article, citing a sexual-health educator in Germany who’s developing a spray-on condom in an effort to give men a better, more comfortable fit.”
“Basically, he has devised a hard plastic tube with nozzles that spray liquid latex from all directions (sort of like a car wash!),” writes Beth in A condom conundrum. “When the latex dries, you have a custom-made condom.”
The biggest problem to date, is “that it takes liquid latex two to three minutes to vulcanize, and the men didn’t want to have to wait that long.”
“Marketers state that a male contraceptive needs to be ready in 5 to 10 seconds to be marketable. No comment from me,” adds Beth. “Make your own jokes and conclusions. Personally, I’m happy anyone out there is actually trying to provide men with more options so that birth control isn’t always viewed as a woman’s responsibility.”
Guys, would you use a spray on condom if it was easy and fast?
Women, would you be open to such a possibility?
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Spray on Condoms? hmmmm That’s interesting. Would I use it? why not. Now that I think about it, it could be more comfortable that the typical condoms. If I had to wait 2-3 minutes..I have no problem with that. But there again, I took my birth control responsibility by surgical measures. Condoms just add a level of extra ‘protection’.
Spray on condoms? I’ll test market those for free.. and blog a review if they need me too.
Eathan, they really are looking for testers!
Do you read German?
http://www.spraykondom.de/spraycondom/testerwanted.php
Unfortunately, the call for men is in German… More info here: http://www.gizmag.com/go/6534/
Let us know…
Condoms? I missed a condom contest. Geez. I really need to pay closer attention. I mean, the panties are great and all, I love my free silky smooth lovely panties, but free condoms? In a case? Rachel, you should have smacked me upside the head to enter that one. Hell, I think I’m having sex again next month. Having another contest?
I KNEW that somehow, someday my B.A. in German would come in handy. Ah…Goethe and Schiller would be so proud to know that I’m putting my language skills to good use reading about spray-on condoms.
And thanks for the condoms! Too bad my date that night wasn’t even close to being worthy of one…
Thanks! And Danke Schoen!
YAY!
Also? Put me in the column of “girls willing to wait for a spray on condom to dry”
Don’t think so. Hang on…turn the light back on… is there a mirror around here? I think I missed a spot…ok, we’ve got a few minutes to kill…what’s on TV?
1. I don’t have to go back on the pill
2. I don’t have to go the bathroom and insert anything.
I’m there… now where’s my date.
Ok, all I could think about was how to get the damned thing off . . .and visions of latex vulcanized into pubic hair made me want to run screaming - and I’m not even the party who would be spraying their privates!!!!!
I guess it’s thank goodness for men who “manscape” down there, but eek - I guess geting waxed regularly makes me think like that.
But hey - if it’s a condom that WON’T, ahem, fall off, I’m ALL for it - seeing as that’s what led to soon to be baby #3 for me!!!
Eek! Spray on condoms?!?!? Holy hell, what will they think of next?
But I do agree with your statement about having men take more responsibility for it.
YUCK!
The original human trials were run 2 years ago. This story resurfaced this week in “Time” for some reason or another. Gotta give it to the inventor for sticking to his guns though!
I second BlueBella, OUCH!!!
As long as I don’t end up with a UTI or someother weird irritation - its okay by me.
That could be a great idea if they work out all the kinks (good point, Blue Bella, about how on earth they would get it off). As for the time it takes to dry, that’s a great time for foreplay.
The fit could be really nice, but the wait period for vulcanization sucks. I’m fine with my Magnums.
(Don’t you just love how I let that brand name slip out…? Lol.)
The only thing I can imagine is how much that spray on stuff would make me itch! Does it even prevent STDs?
No.
Way.
I’d be way too paranoid about rashes and sticky stuff that doesn’t belong there to enjoy it.
Cause I guess I’m a prude like that.
I read that article, and I think it’s a cool concept. But doesn’t it take like forever to dry? If it dried instantly that would be cool. But, I’m always screwing up my nail polish because I didn’t let it dry long enough. I’d hate to think of the smudge consequences….
OVERSPRAY?
How would you get it to go only where you want it to? Scary. I can only imagine trying to get a latex mist off of everything in the room.
Do you see now why I adore all of you?
You have me on the floor with all of your comments about overspraying, smudging, rashes, and the like.
Condoms on the way… And I’ll need to have another condom contest soon because I’m swimming in One Condoms over here. I don’t know what in the world to do with so many condoms—
oh come ON y’all. You can’t make the 2-3 minutes it takes to dry into part of the foreplay??!!??
*tsk*
That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard in awhile! I couldn’t imagine that would be that safe, it’d have to make sure to cover everywhere. I wouldn’t trust it just yet. Things like that are too new and I’m just not on board with being a statistic haha. I do think it’s nice that these kind of ideas are coming forth. On the dating site I signed up for, vdateonline.com, there are always blogs about new inventions that help dating, most new technology for online dating and not so much spray on contraceptives!
C’mon, what guy wouldn’t love to say (while waiting for the drying time), “Hold on honey, I’m VULCANIZING!” ROFL You guys crack me up!
I was ready to read the trials link. The I found out it was over and the link doesn’t work. I’m disappointed
Oh well.. keep ya eyes open… I’ll buy them if they become available in Texas 
I like people notice all the details and minutiae of everyday little thing could find something attractive and imperceptible to most. Super!