re: Custom sized condoms ...

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the original report/article from nyt ... should've posted that ....

Many ideas for improving condoms have fizzled, sometimes stymied by the costs of testing required to satisfy the F.D.A., which considers condoms to be medical
devices. A competition sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sought ideas for more pleasurable condoms in 2013 but has not yet brought one to market.
While some winners are still pursuing prototypes, others have given up.

Other ideas seemed feasible but stalled for financial reasons. Mark McGlothlin,
awarded $100,000 by the Gates Foundation to develop natural-feeling collagen
condoms from cow tendon or fish skin, said he lacks $2 million for the necessary
clinical trials.
Origami condoms, pleated to allow movement inside, received fanfare and a
Gates grant. But efforts to check its status with the inventor were unsuccessful, and
its website appears defunct.
One Gates winner, Mahua Choudhury, a medical pharmacologist at Texas A&M
Health Science Center, said condom companies were considering investing in her
stretchy hydrogel condom. Her proposal also claims that embedding an antioxidant
in the condom can promote blood flow and muscle relaxation to “stimulate and
maintain erection.”
Mr. Frezieres’s organization, which won two Gates grants totaling $1.2 million
for a clingy, polyethylene “ultra sheer wrapping condom,” has corporate partners
and clinical trial results. Now it is “tweaking the material,” hoping to conduct final
testing soon, he said.



bill said he still hasn't found the right one ...