Sex In The Public Square - The Female Condom Gets a Makeover - Comments

Condom Follow-Up

Chris — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:59:21 -0800

I'd love to hear your follow-up. I know that Audacia really appreciated the original model, and I've known quite a few women who loved it, but that's far from being a universal consensus. I think that no matter what they do to the design, the whole thing is doomed unless they can bring down the price significantly.

I will have to do a

Amber Rhea — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:20:58 -0800

I will have to do a follow-up podcast about this! Rusty and I did a podcast last year where we tested the female condom, with not so great results.

The Female Condom Gets a Makeover

Chris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:00:35 -0800

The female condom has kind of been like the Betamax of safer sex. Despite its debut being heralded with a lot of hype and hopes, it never caught on, either in the United States or elsewhere. Now the makers have redesigned it, hoping that it'll live up to its potential the second time around. I do know women who like the female condom: at least two have told me that they didn't like using it unless they were serious about a guy, because it felt much more intimate than a regular condom. But no matter what they do with the shape and design, I don't think that the female condom's ever going to become competitive unless they can do something about the price, which has always been up around $4 per female condom as opposed to .50 to $1.00 for the old-fashioned kind.