“Viagra condoms” could hit store shelves next year

When you’re in a grocery store, the options can be overwhelming. If you’re in the shampoo isle for example, you can chose between dozens of brands that offer dozens of different improvements. From shampoo for split ends to a volumizing lather, you can spend an enormous amount of time looking over your options. It seems just about every product has several options to chose from and now the condom section will come with a similar time commitment.

You can pick from ultra thin to ribbed, and soon there could be a new option. A condom, nicknamed the Viagra condom, will be hitting store shelves. This new product promises to enhance sex through the use of a special gel that is coated on the condom. The gel is supposed to increase blood flow and lead to longer erections, much like the popular blue pill.

Some people speculate the condom will be slippery, and may even fall off because of this ‘enhancing gel.’

The popular condom makers, Durex, plan to roll out this new product in Britain by the end of the year. No word yet on whether the product will be launched in the U.S. as well.

Some people speculate it could lead to safer sex. For those men who think condoms get in the way of their ‘game’ it might encourage them to reconsider.



Condom History

Condom use can be traced back several thousand years. There are ancient Egyptian pictures of men using linen sheaths for protection. According to Undercover Condom’s website, the first latex condom was made in the 1880s, but didn’t go mainstream until 1930. By 1980, HIV had become a widespread problem and government agencies started ad campaigns to promote condom use and safe sex. By 1990 manufacturers were rolling out ribbed, studded, and multicolored condoms, and now 2013 could be marked as the year of the ‘Viagra condom.’