Under The Counter received an email from Tianjin Recare Co the other day, a company which has been “reliably” manufacturing latex condoms for more than 25 years.
Given that UTC has as much use for a condom as Bruce Willis has for a comb, this was very much an unsolicited communication.
You wouldn’t think there was much NPD in the world of barrier contraception, but Recare was reaching out to tell the Auld Boy about its latest innovation: wine condoms.
To clarify, that’s not wine-flavoured condoms but condoms for bottles of wine.
The johnnies, which the company says are “funny and practical,” are unrolled over the necks of opened bottles and perform the same anti-oxidative function as a traditional wine stopper, albeit in a slightly more snigger-inducing fashion.
On behalf of gynaecologists everywhere, UTC prayed that the world’s wine stopper makers didn’t retaliate to this incursion into their territory by trying to market their products as a funny and practical alternative to condoms.
