Condoms are one of those strangely low-tech things you just kind of have to put up with.
It’s something that, by design, is so unsatisfying. Many people would rather go without and risk the consequences of its non-use.
After all, they feel weird, they expire, they break, and people can have bad reactions to latex and lubes.
So naturally, science has put Bill Gates on the case:
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation…is poring over thousands of applications for its “Grand Challenge” to develop a “next-generation condom that significantly enhances or preserves pleasure.”
They’re offering a $100,000 grant to whomever can do that magical balance: thin enough to still feel pleasurable, but durable enough to work as a global product.
The concern is “the 95 percent of men worldwide who don’t use condoms”.
It certainly seems like Bill Gates has got his work cut out for him.
