Designer condoms?
Proper Attire condoms are, apparently, a new brand of condom catering to people who don't feel traditional condoms are "stylish" enough.
The brand's slogan: "Proper Attire: Required for Entry"
From their website:
Old stereotypes about who should buy condoms are so last season! PROPER ATTIRE® condoms are the "must-have" accessory and were designed with sexually active, stylish women in mind.
The fashionably chic PROPER ATTIRE design helps ensure that now you can feel completely comfortable buying condoms and carrying them with you. With 5 trendy styles — Basic (regular); Color (colored); Dots (studded); XL (extra large); and Proper Attire’s Yigal Azrouël Sheer (ultra thin) — PROPER ATTIRE condoms are a safe yet fun way to protect yourself and your partner and do it with style!
While I'm populist in many ways I'm not the kind of guy who shakes his head at brand preference and tells you that it's all the same stuff. There are a number of brands (including condom brands) to which I'm loyal. But the idea that prophylactics just aren't stylish enough is pushing it a little far, isn't it?
It's hard enough being a young guy buying condoms for the first time without worrying that your date is going to think your condoms are "so last season."
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I think this is genius, and you pointed out why in your argument against it:
"It's hard enough being a young guy buying condoms for the first time without worrying that your date is going to think your condoms are 'so last season.'"
Who says the young guy is the only one who can supply the condoms? I think the idea here is to get young women to purchase and carry their own. Just look at the packaging of most condom wrappers right now: silvers, greys, blacks and other metallics. The damn things look like race cars. Trojan Magnums? Giant gold wrapper, and ask any lady if she wants to associate her partner's apparatus with a giant handgun.
When they don't look like an ad for men's razors, it's either silly pink novelty junk, or cold sterile medical supplies. It's about time someone thought to diversify the design a bit.
And as for those young men terrified that their rubbers will be passe': Well, enjoy for a brief moment what life is like for women in our culture 24/7.
Posted on October 8, 2008 2:48 PM
This is true - condoms look pretty masculine these days.
But, you know, they're for male genitalia. It seems like this is one area the ladies could cede to us.
I agree it would be great if women carried condoms as well -- but I think if guys are falling down on the job women can and should simply tell them to come prepared next time.
Posted on October 8, 2008 2:55 PM
I think both parties should have them on hand, in case one just doesn't realize (s)he's out 'til (s)he's out. Mistakes get made.
Also, I don't think condoms are for male genitalia any more than the wall I used to share with my neighbors belonged to me alone. Protection is a responsibility both partners have to lay claim to. And I should add that genitals aren't the only thing they get used on.
Besides, Joe -- it's a pretty wrapper. What could go wrong with a pretty wrapper?
Posted on October 8, 2008 3:38 PM
Oh, and while women can turn guys away if they show up empty-handed, doesn't that assume she didn't care either way to begin with? She's got a sex drive too, you know.
Posted on October 8, 2008 3:47 PM
You make several good points.
Maybe I'm just wishing we could just let some things be utilitarian...
Posted on October 8, 2008 10:36 PM
Sorry. People like me will never allow that.
Posted on October 9, 2008 9:25 AM
go to one condoms.com and check out the conndoms
Posted on October 9, 2008 9:08 PM
Those condoms break easily.
Posted on October 17, 2008 2:47 AM