Condom Alternative Seals Penis Shut With Sticker -- Plugs Up The Woes Of Sex?

It sounds as if you have to rip off this adhesive sticker from the tip of your penis during the height of ecstasy and the disclaimer states that it is not a safeguard against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. So what particular problem was this meant to solve?

The kicker might be in the advertising of this sticker, "Sex is simple, why make it complicated." But has this Jiftip lived up to that expectation? The writer from Slate, Christina Cauterucci', offers a comical critique of the product. One of the only uses she suggests for this sticker is to prevent the collection of lint in that hole. Her theory is "Jiftip is counting on a fair number of curious, gullible dudes to drop $6 on a pack of the stickers just to see what's what."

The quest for finding a better form of birth control while safeguarding against transmitting diseases during sex has been going on for centuries and not one device or strategy has out shined the use of a condom as of yet. Except of course the practice of abstinence. From what the experts have to say about plugging up your penis with a sticker, it's safe to say there's still nothing to safely take the place of the condom today.

USA Today is another publication questioning the benefits and safety of this new invention, or rather the new use of an old product... the sticker. Their thoughts are conveyed in the tweet below.

The controversial stickers made news this week, so chances are more people will check out the Jiftip website, but doctors say this concept is "risky." USA Today writes that "Brahmbhatt notes that the entire marketing campaign around the product is alarming."

A bit of condom history:

The first mention of an attempt to use a condom-like apparatus made out of an animal bladder goes back to the Bronze Age. The Ancient Egyptians were the first civilization to use sheaths as condoms made from animal bladders and the history of the condom continues with not much changing until the invention of rubber.

The condom was first made of rubber back in the 1860's by the same man whose surname is still on many of the tires on vehicles today, Charles Goodyear. Before Goodyear's invention of rubber, condoms were made from different materials throughout different countries. The use of animal sheaths as condoms was the most popular until the modernization of the rubber condom.

The next and final step of improving the condom came with latex, which was first discovered in the 1920s and eventually made its way to the condom industry. This is what is still used today.

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (NCBI), their research indicates the first use of a condom is found in ancient history. They discovered the first mention of a condom dates back to the wife of King Minos of Crete.

She used a goat's bladder to line her vagina to keep her husband's semen from harming her. The sperm of King Minos was thought to contain "scorpions and serpents" after his previous mistresses had died.

This was also the first mention of an attempt to use a condom-like device to have safe sex and guard against disease. Condoms have played a significant part in the prevention of venereal diseases throughout history.

The ancient Roman women not only used the bladders of animals as a condom-type device to guard against pregnancy but to also prevent venereal diseases. While the condom has come a long way since ancient times, it doesn't appear that this invention of a penis sticker will make it into the history books as an alternative.

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