Take a Pause: Buy Condoms with a Cause

According to Nerve.com, in a recent study done by the journal "Psychology, Health & Medicine", researchers reported that people are still overcome with shyness when purchasing condoms. The journal reports that 71 percent of women said they felt shy about buying rubbers. I guess chicks are worried that the single mother working the register at the local box store will snicker at their birth control purchase, which ultimately means that they're less likely to use condoms when having sex.

Well, it seems like four condom companies are doing their part to encourage people, especially women, to be less self-conscience about their prophylactic purchases, while attempting to boost their sales. Now when you get that strength to buy a box of rubbers, your purchase (and embarrassment) will benefit others, and in this hipster-heavy world, sometimes a good cause is all one needs to change one's behaviors. We all like to think we're actually helping the world in more ways than one when having sex, and if you use condoms from the companies Sustain, Sir Richard's, NuVo and L, you'll actually be making a difference in someone's life, besides your own and your sex partner's.

You've heard of fair trade coffee? Well, the condom makers at Sustain purchase their rubber from a plantation in India that produces fair trade and wage latex. Plus, they also donate a percentage of sales to a non-profit that helps women who lack access to reproductive health. Nothing is sexier than helping someone get tested for an STD!

Sir Richard's matches your condom purchase—for every condom you buy, the company donates one to a developing country. So the more protective sex you have with Sir Richard's condoms, the more others will benefit. Also, the condom makers produce chemical-free condoms that are supposed to be healthier than other chemical-laden load holders on the market.

NuVu does the same condom-for-condom donation as Sir Richard's, but they dole out their dick skins to a non-profit organization that helps needy and horny individuals in the United States, not a developing country. How patriotic!

Lastly, L Condoms follows in Sir Richard's footsteps by doing the buy-a-condom-donate one-to–another-country promotion. Even further, the makers of the dick-hugging latex works to appease tree huggers by recycling excess latex, and their packaging is made entirely of recycled paper. They also make a vegan-friendly rubber, so your non-meat-consuming partner can have some guilt-free enjoyment while being penetrated by some meat wrap in latex.

Via: Nerve