'Extra Small' Condoms for 12-Year-Old Boys Go on Sale

[Sol Invictus]

March 04, 2010 | FOXNews

A leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland has created extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 years old, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported.

The condom, called the Hotshot, was produced after family planning groups and the Swiss AIDS Federation campaigned to have the condoms made following several studies that showed adolescent boys were not using proper protection when engaging in intercourse.

"The result that shocked us concerned young boys who display apparently risky behavior,” Nancy Bodmer, who headed the research, told the newspaper. “They have more of a tendency not to protect themselves. They do not have a very developed sexual knowledge. They do not understand the consequences of what they are doing and leave the young girls to take care of the consequences.”

Bodmer said the results of the study suggest that early prevention makes sense.

A spokeswoman for the company, Lamprecht AG, said the United Kingdom would be a “top priority” if they expanded abroad, especially since the U.K. has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in Europe.

A standard condom has a diameter of 2 inches; the Hotshot's is 1.7 inches.

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[Nordish Persephone]

That's horrible! 12 year old boys? What is wrong with people? Teen boys that young who get into sex are not even capable of using one of those anyway, its ridiculous. Its another example of the Liberals trying to do away with abstinence.

[Loddfafner]

Are these small condoms primarily manufactured for precocious European teens... or for Asian adult males? The market for gag gifts from cruel secret santas is probably too small.

[Beorn]

That's horrible! 12 year old boys? What is wrong with people? Teen boys that young who get into sex are not even capable of using one of those anyway, its ridiculous. Its another example of the Liberals trying to do away with abstinence.

Don't ever come to Britain. You will be shocked. At 12 I knew exactly what to do with 'it' and was often found making sure 'it' was fully functional and ready for action. My friends all had condoms, and some had even used them at the age of 12. My glory day didn't arrive till a bit later than that, but I put that down to enjoying the pleasures of smoking cigarettes, pot and drinking alcohol more.

[Nordish Persephone]

Don't ever come to Britain. You will be shocked. At 12 I knew exactly what to do with 'it' and was often found making sure 'it' was fully functional and ready for action. My friends all had condoms, and some had even used them at the age of 12. My glory day didn't arrive till a bit later than that, but I put that down to enjoying the pleasures of smoking cigarettes, pot and drinking alcohol more.

That's terrible. 12 year old boys are still children, I don't really consider them adolescent at that age. Btw you got into way too much at that age.

[Beorn]

That's terrible. 12 year old boys are still children, I don't really consider them adolescent at that age. Btw you got into way too much at that age.

Not at all. At 12 I could get a hardon and procreate, punch another person to protect myself and had the intelligence to survive in the arena I lived my life in. In short I was a young man.

It is only modern society that stopped me leaving school and getting a job.

[Nordish Persephone]

Not at all. At 12 I could get a hardon and procreate, punch another person to protect myself and had the intelligence to survive in the arena I lived my life in. In short I was a young man.

It is only modern society that stopped me leaving school and getting a job.

Well I guess its just American society that leads me to think that way. Most of the 12 year old males in my school at that age were short and acted like little boys pretty much. They couldn't have supported themselves if their life had depended on it. Some of them were more mature, but definitely not the majority.

[Loddfafner]

One company that could never diversify into condom manufacturing is Microsoft.

[Guapo]

One company that could never diversify into condom manufacturing is Microsoft.

Maybe if they were called Macrohard.

[Aemma]

That's horrible! 12 year old boys? What is wrong with people? Teen boys that young who get into sex are not even capable of using one of those anyway, its ridiculous. Its another example of the Liberals trying to do away with abstinence.

But Pale Fire, not everybody thinks that abstinence is an appropriate form of "protection". As a matter of fact, "abstinence" is not any type of protection at all!

Yup you can call me one of those Liberals perhaps but honestly, I'd rather my 12 year old, if he were sexually active, to be protecting his health than not!