Origami Condoms

[RodEnuf]

OCTOBER 2013

 

This Is a Condom

 

By Eleanor Smith -- The Atlantic -- Sep. 18, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Condoms are cheap, widely available, and highly effective when used properly. But they're also notoriously unsexy, and often forgone in the heat of the moment. To get more people to rely on the world's most widely available form of protection against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued a design challenge for a "next generation condom."

 

 

 

Most condoms are made of super thin latex, to help a man forget that he's wearing one. But the Origami Condom, one of the designs spotlighted by the Gates Foundation, is intended to be felt. Its accordion-like silicone folds allow it to slip onto the penis more easily than a rolled condom, and generate pleasurable friction while in use. The Origami Condom has a roomier tip than a traditional condom and a lubricated interior, which creates additional tactile sensation as the wearer moves-the difference between wrapping yourself in plastic wrap versus silk sheets.

 

 

 

The designer, Danny Resnic, who began working on the project after a broken condom left him HIV-positive, is developing three types of Origami Condoms: a male version, which is still undergoing trials and modifications and which he plans to market as a gender-neutral "outer condom"; a female version, or "inner condom"; and the first-ever anal condom.

 

 

 

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ORIGAMI vs. Latex Condom from ORIGAMI Condoms on Vimeo.

 

 

 

Links to products at OrigamiCondoms.com:

 

 

 

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[Riftalope]

I'd put this on Farcebook but they'd ban me. I wonder if they make various lengths? That top ring bumping around as an extra doesn't look fun.