It may be stretching the point to ask the question, but is latex on the way out? Will smelly old condoms be crooning, 'Arrivederci Aroma?'
AIM Health Care, according to AIM's Sharon Mitchell, got the test market for the liquid condom. "It's a clear, non detectable liquid," Mitchell says."From what I'm told, it puts a clear coating in the vagina, and it has a 99.9% kill rate to chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV. It's called the liquid condom and we'll have as many supplies as the industry can handle by the middle of next week. How I'd like to conduct these studies - you know the condom unity form we send out - I'd like to leave this option open to the non-condom folks and see if the STD rate goes down, which is skyrocketing, by the way. Everybody's got chlamydia. It's that time of the year. This will revolutionize everything."
California State University of San Francisco Sexual Research Center's Ted Macylvania heads the research program. Macylvania will be in town next week to inaugurate the test market program in the adult industry.
"Sex workers are perfect targets for this program," said Mitchell. "I convinced him that because we have so many players who are non-condom purely out of inconvenience, let's see how this goes. This will be the first of many test markets for AIM. I'm really looking forward to finally getting a good, tangible study in here. I have high hopes for what it sounds like, but I'll be the first one using it next week."
Mitchell says research has already been conducted in Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Kenya, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and Venezuela. "When I heard about it, I thought, how perfect for the industry. Now there will be no excuses."
Mitchell's not sure, but she thinks the liquid condom comes either in ampoules or caplets. "I'll see exactly all the tangible supplies next week. It's a go." Mitchell says two other grants are coming in this year, one for HIV and another in the area of education and prevention of HIV. "I'm always working on the hepatitis grants, and I've got some new grant riders for different things that will be up federally. Not all grants are suitable for us, but I'm going after the ones that are."
