In science news you’ll actually care about, an Australian company is well on their way to creating a new hydrogel condom they claim will actually enhance sex.
Now, as we all know, condom companies have been telling us for years that their rubbers feel like ‘nothing’s there’ but, inevitably, these claims are not legit and you can always most certainly feel that something is there playing piggy in the middle with your genitals.
Hydrogel, a substance already used in things like shower gels, also has the benefit of feeling like skin and being super strong. As if that wasn’t enough, Gorkin told Science Alert that hydrogel condoms also have the potential to self-lubricate and deliver Viagra and/or electrical stimulation to the wearer.
He continued: “Our original idea was just to try to prove that an original material could replace latex. We were starting from scratch, we had an idea that these new materials would have the same properties as rubber with a nicer feel, but we weren’t sure if they had the right properties for a condom The early indications are that the materials are strong enough and actually do prevent against the transfer of small biological molecules.”
Keen, though.
