Coming to a Boots near you? (Picture: Love Guide Condoms)

Condom packaging just got a whole lot more fun.

Much like we use different fruits to categorise our body shapes (apples and pears), a design student reckons a similar fruit and veg system could be the simplest way of keeping your meat and two veg STI-free.

And it’s not as barmy as it sounds.

The Indian Council of Medical Research discovered that 20 per cent of condoms fail to work properly at all simply because they’re not the right size.


So, Taiwanese student Guan-Hao Pan has come up with the ‘Love Guide’ packaging system. The packaging comes in five different shapes and sizes – including zucchini (courgette), carrot, banana, turnip and eye-watering cucumber (5cm girth).

(Picture: Love Guide Condoms)

All users need to do is have a squeeze, and work out what best captures their likeness.

(Picture: Love Guide Condoms)

‘Studies show that more than 60 per cent of users choose a wrong size while shopping for condom. In addition to discomfort, wrong size selection increases the risk of slippage and rupture,’ Guan-Hao explained to Dezeen of his design concept.

(Picture: Love Guide Condoms)

‘A condom becomes less effective if it is the wrong size, worn on the wrong side, or its tip is not squeezed when worn,’ he added. ‘Each condom comes in a specially designed case with a rising tip, making it easy to remove the condom from the right side while squeezing the tip at the same time.’



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Let’s just hope they plan to sell them online too. For the sake of all those zucchinis out there.

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