Female Condoms Redesigned- November 13, 2007 Only about 12 million female condoms are delivered each year in poor countries, compared with about 6 billion male condoms. Couples complained that the female version was awkward, unsightly, noisy and slippery or, as Mitchell Warren, who was one of its earliest champions, now says, the yuck factor was a problem. Many women tried it, but in the end, it was adopted mainly by prostitutes. Now scientists are trying again. A new design much the same at one end, different at the other has been...http://safersex.org/2007/11/female-condoms-redesigned.shtml Nitrosamine & Condoms- November 2, 2007 In recent years reader's have asked about nitrosamine. In 2004 a German study raised some concern about nitrosamine in the latex used for condom manufacture. Furthermore, 32 rubber condom samples collected in 2004 from the German market were surveyed for nitrosamines by determining the amount migrating into an artificial sweat test solution. The levels released from condoms varied from While nitrosamines can be found in a large variety of foods (mainly fried foods) it is not known exactly...http://safersex.org/2007/11/nitrosamine.shtml |