About 80 percent of the plant's employees are women, English said. While most condoms are made using the same process, the plant also handles part of Carter-Wallace's Naturallamb brand. Like the earliest condoms, they're not made from latex but from the tissue of lambs. The plant also tests and packages a new type of polyurethane condom designed for people with allergies to latex. What we've got here is a watch with hands on it.
Polyurethane is a digital watch.
But English doesn't expect polyurethane to replace latex condoms, at least not anytime soon, partly because they're more expensive. . . . Condoms came out of the closet in the late 20th century. At the start of the century, the mere mention of them would run afoul of the law. The Comstock laws passed by Congress starting in 1873 made it illegal to advertise or distribute condoms. Even then, however, condom makers were producing the goods and shipping them overseas, Knowles said.