There are exciting news for the manga loving community in general and for Junko Mizuno fans specifically. At MizunoGarden there’s now a line a manga themed condoms and lube available. Reasons enough for me to blog the cute artwork.

“Mizuno Garden” is a paradise of erotic fantasy where the fruits of love are always ripe. The crops include beautiful lingerie, costumes, condoms, lotions, vibrators, and more!

At the moment there are only the condoms and the lube, but many of the other “crops” are supposed to come later.

These times of prosperity for condom marketers/producers might just be the perfect takeover time. And sure enough we’ve been sent a tip about a possible Legends Condoms sale in Australia. Legends are known for their neat packaging and sell about 4000 tins of condoms a month.

Lately the brand received a lot of publicity because of its plan to showcase controversial artist Hazel Dooney’s work on their condom boxes (it never came to being though). Legends condoms are also the first condoms in the world to be awarded cruelty-free certification from PETA, stating that there’s no animal testing involved in the production of this product.

There are ten various designs for the condom tins that are made in China and Malaysia. In 2007 Legends won a bronze medal for their product in the Packaging Design Awards. Now, in 2009, there two interested purchasers of Legend Rubbers and we might see them in new hands as soon as in two month’s time.

Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza is helping to raise condom awareness among South American men.

As a spokesperson for the campaign “Hombres de Verdad” (Men of Truth) the beauty queen visited Nicaragua and its capital Managua this week. The campaign is part of No todos los hombres son iguales by PASMO (Organización Panamericana de Mercadeo Social) a social marketing entity active in Central America.

On Wednesday she reminded the Central American men not to forget to use condoms because this might save their lifes and the ones of their partners. She added that, everyone could get HIV because AIDS hasn’t got a face (“cara”), color or any other form of looks.

Back during the Olympic Games we reported about the massive condom use and the incredible viral ads by Elasun that were big in the western blogosphere and media.

Health officials distributed a 100’000 condoms in the Beijing Olympic village and another 300’000 in Beijing Hotels. These condoms were sponsored by the organizers and obviously produced in China. GOBON is one of the biggest Chinese condom producers and is also one of the largest condom supplier for the United Nations Fund of Poplation.

Luckily we got hold of an example to show to the rest of the world.

Torsten Blueher a German entrepreneur has registered a rather unusual trademark to say the least. Freedom tower make love not war is the new mark registered in a couple of countries for a couple of products.

As the NY Post reports the request for the trademark registration now lies before the US Patent and Trademark Office and “has 9/11 families howling and the tower’s owner, the Port Authority, scrambling to block it”.

While at the time it’s doubtful if the request for the registration of the trademark will be granted for the US with the Port Authority looking to block it, but the trademarks for many European countries is already a fact.

Although or because we’re in tough times when it comes to obtaining credits or the economy in general, the condom industry does particularly well and sells more of their products than in times of a booming economy. Consequently it would be a wise idea to invest into birth control/sex technologies right now.

Just a few days ago we got an interesting comment on condomunity.com from a user (called Conxband) who’s looking for investments for the patent 6,453,903 B1 – Condom with Constrictive Band about Opening. Because the comment was a bit off-topic i decided to give it a whole post.

That’s the comment by Conxband:

At the end of the year 2008 the New York Times Magazine honored the spray-on condom as one of the years best innovations (they did not seem to care that it was actually an invention of the year before and one that would not come into being for quite some time, if at all). However its inventor Jan Vinzenz Krause has long moved on to new and easier ideas like his own new condom brand My.Size Condoms.

We took a first exclusive look at the outcome:

My.Size are condoms that come in 6 various sizes from 47 mm to 64 mm in width or from 160 mm to 223 mm in length. Even the wrappers are differently sized.

Durex recently released a clever (and hilarious) viral ad called Get it On, a video suggesting that you use condoms in all kind of situations.

The ad was done by Süperfad for Durex USA. Let’s just quickly dive in and let the creators do the talking. Scroll down the article to see the Get it On Video in full length.

LifeStyles SKYN the new product that was launched last year is well known in the condom world because of its material. It’s called Polyisoprene and its main features are the latex-free material and the soft feel.

However, as someone pointed out, it also protects its user from pregnancy (the star indicating birth?) and sexually transmitted diseases (the cross meaning death?). An interesting way to show these facts on a wrapper!