Method of inducing safety in sexual acts and aids in support thereof

A method and garment aid to facilitate and induce the use of a condom for safe or safer sexual acts are disclosed, wherein a pocket containing a condom is carried, for example, at the inner forward waistband region of underpants, such that a potential participant, when removing such underpants, as a general precondition to engaging in the sexual act, will invariably touch or be conscious of the pocket-and-condom, thus providing a warning and a reminder of the proximal presence and readily accessible convenience of the juxtaposed condom that may serve to induce use of the same and thereby increase the chances of the enactment of safe or safer sex. Novel pockets including modified condom-package-pockets are disclosed.

The present invention relates to the problem of inducing participants in 
sexual acts to seek safety from disease and unwanted pregnancies through 
the use of condoms; being more particularly directed to methods of and 
aids in support of providing ready inducement, warning and convenience as 
inherent pr-conditions of the sexual act are performed. 
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION 
Worldwide educational programs are in sway, particularly in the light of 
the terrible and deadly affliction of AIDS and the seriousness of venereal 
and other diseases and unwanted pregnancies, to urge the use of condoms as 
at least a substantial measure for providing relative safety. 
Unfortunately, in the heat of human passion, often uncontrolled, 
particularly with younger people, the participants are frequently 
unprepared, or find it inconvenient, or lack the will power, or suffer 
memory lapses as to the seriousness of their risks, and do not use 
condoms. 
It is to the automatic or inherent solution or at least amelioration of 
these circumstances that lead to ignoring the use of condoms, that the 
present invention is primarily directed. 
OBJECTS OF INVENTION 
The object of the present invention, indeed, is to provide a novel method 
of facilitating a safe sexual act and aids in support thereof, by 
providing for the ready and most easily accessible presence of a condom to 
the participant, as underpants or similar garments are removed by the 
participant as a usual pre-condition to the act, and during which the 
participants cannot help but touch and/or see the warning and have the 
condom at their fingertips in the very undressing movements they perform. 
Other and further objects will be explained hereinafter and are more fully 
delineated in the appended claims. 
SUMMARY 
In summary, the invention embraces a method of facilitating a safe sexual 
act, that comprises, storing a condom on the underpants of a potential 
participant, readily to facilitate and induce its use by inherently 
reminding the participant of its presence and convenience and serving as a 
warning for safety as the underpants are being removed as a pre-condition 
of the act; said storing being effected by a pocket housing the condom at 
the forward waist region of the underpants and of minimal thickness, bulk 
and contour about the condom to render its presence substantially 
imperceptible in the feel and sound in the wearing of the underpants, said 
pocket sealing the condom from inadvertent removal therefrom, including 
during the washing of the underpants, while enabling the ready unsealing 
to permit facile withdrawal and use of the condom. 
As an aid to practicing this method, the invention also includes modified 
underpants for facilitating a safe sexual act, having in combination with 
elasticized waistband underpants, a pocket attached to a predetermined 
region, preferably forward waistband region, of the underpants and adapted 
to house and store a condom, readily to facilitate and induce its use by 
inherently reminding the potential participant of its presence and 
convenience and serving as a warning for safety as the underpants are 
being removed as a pre-condition of the act; the pocket being provided 
with a readily openable edge or region for exposing the condom and being 
of minimal thickness, bulk and contour about the condom to render its 
presence substantially imperceptible in the feel and sound in the wearing 
of the underpants; said pocket, when closed, storing the condom from 
inadvertent removal therefrom including during washing of the underpants, 
but with said edge or region readily openable to permit facile withdrawal 
and use of the condom. 
Preferred and best mode embodiments and pocket designs are hereinafter 
detailed, including: 
(1) an underpants pocket, preferably of fabric similar in feel and 
appearance to that of the underpants, permanently or detachably secured at 
or near preferably the forward portion of the elasticized waistband of the 
underpants, and normally closed, but readily openable along a 
predetermined edge or region to permit access to and withdrawal of the 
condom; and 
(2) a pocket serving as the condom package itself, with an external 
adhesive or adhering surface or coated edge or region, normally covered by 
a release strip, that attaches to and is removable from the underpants or 
similar surface.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
Referring to FIG. 1, a pocket P containing or housing a condom C is shown 
integrated or attached with and hanging from, preferably, the inside 
elastic waistband region E of the forward or front portion of fabric 
underpants F. As shown, the pocket is a fabric similar to that of the 
underpants and of minimal thickness, bulk and contour about the condom, 
generally conforming thereto, to render the presence of the pocket 
substantially imperceptible in feel and sound in the wearing of the 
underpants. The attachment of the pocket P to or near the waistband E in 
the embodiment of FIG. 1 is shown permanent, as by stitching to the 
waistband at 1 with the pocket freely hanging or suspended therebelow. The 
upper or top pocket edge P' (though other regions may be selected) is 
shown provided with hook-and-loop strips V on opposing inner margins to 
close off the pocket and seal the condom from inadvertent removal 
therefrom, including during the washing of the underpants, while enabling 
the ready opening of the edge to permit facile withdrawal and use of the 
condom (and subsequent replacement of another condom(s)). 
Through the above type of construction and particular placement, one who is 
to participate in a sexual act will customarily, as a pre-condition 
thereto, place their fingers on the upper elasticized waistband region of 
the underpants to stretch the waistband to remove the underpants, 
inherently intercepting the pocket and receiving the warning and being 
reminded of the proximal presence and readily accessible convenience of 
the juxtaposed condom, and thus likely inducing the use of the same, 
increasing the chances of the enactment of safe or safer sex. 
Instead of a permanent integrated pocket attachment, as at 1 in FIG. 1, 
opposing hook-and-loop strips V' on the elastic waistband region and the 
juxtaposed outer top marginal surface of the pocket P may be provided, as 
shown in FIG. 2, enabling ready attachment and removal of the hanging 
pocket from the undergarment, where desired. 
While the use of a fabric or material pocket similar to that of the 
underpants has been previously described as a desirable mode, where such 
overall integration with the garment is not particularly desired, the 
pocket material may be different. 
Indeed, the current day plastic or metallized packages housing and 
generally conforming to condoms sealed therein, and tearable to open the 
same at a desired edge or other region for the withdrawal of the contents, 
may, with modification, become enabled to serve as the pocket of the 
invention, as shown, for example, at P" in FIG. 3. In such event, an 
outside surface region of the condom package (pocket) P" may be provided 
with an adhesive coating or other adherent surface, such as any well-known 
pressure-release adhesive A, along, for example, an upper margin of the 
outside surface of the package. Normally, the strip A would be covered by 
a release strip R, as of silicone, preferably having a tab T that extends 
slightly to the side of the package or other means to enable easy removal 
of the release strip. When the release strip R is torn off, the exposed 
adhesive strip A will enable ready attachment to the waistband E or other 
part of the underpants (or other garment or surface, as desired), with the 
feature of ready removal and opening of the carried condom-package-pocket 
prior to the sexual act. 
Further modifications will also occur to those skilled in this art, 
including integration of pockets in non-fabric undergarments, and in 
providing the pockets in other garments, as well, or on other surfaces, 
particularly those that are inherently intercepted as the participants 
prepare for a sexual act, and other than hook-and-loop type attaching 
strips may also be used; such being considred to fall within the spirit 
and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.