Condoms

Many industries complain that new government regulations are bad for business; now, we're hearing it from the adult film biz. A proposed L.A. city regulation to require porn actors to use condoms has adult film makers threatening to leave Tinseltown -- and to take the lion's share of an $8 billion-a-year industry with them.

For sexually active women and men who use contraception, the cost of birth control ranges from $10 to $100 or more a month. That's not terribly high, but in tough economic times, the impact of that expense is magnified. Here are options and prices for avoiding an unplanned pregnancy.

Whether you're looking for heartburn relief, aspirin, condoms, vitamins or even shampoo and lipstick, shopping at a drugstore can be daunting. There are so many choices that the easiest option can be buying a brand you know. But drugstore markups can lead to serious overspending. At the very...

SSL International, the company that makes Durex condoms as well as Scholl foot care products, said its board has accepted a £2.54 billion ($3.9 billion) takeover offer from Reckitt Benckiser. Reckitt Benckiser said the offer represents a 33% premium over SSL's July 20 share price, according...

The porn business is going to keep its elbow room. A petition by an AIDS advocacy group to require that adult film companies use condoms when shooting movies has been denied by a Los Angeles judge.

In a recent series of print ads, Germany's Doc Morris Pharmacies have used images of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Osama Bin Laden to suggest that safe sex can help protect against the conception of a potential dictator or mass murderer. The campaign is designed to inspire terror but seems to be...

Some of the world's greatest condom manufacturers are based in America. There was a time when the words "made in the USA," stamped on a box of prophylactics, were a reassuring mark of quality, a veritable guarantee that the enclosed pessary would not fail in its appointed duty.

Nielsen reports that sales of condoms were up 5% in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. January saw an increase of 6%. With that increase, condoms join cheap vodka as one of the few products that's seeing an upswing as consumers cut back.Why are condom sales on the rise?...

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One of the great joys of my life is marketing. To put it simply, I love watching companies desperately try to convince me that I can't live without this item or that item, that my entire life will be better if I use this product or that product. Generally, marketers are pretty straight about their...