Patent ID: 7322358

Claim:
A female condom, comprising: a pouch of resilient membranous material having an open end, a closed end, an outer surface and an inner surface; at least one hydrophilic cling element attached to said outer surface of said pouch, said at least one cling element being disposed between said open end and said closed end, each one of said cling elements adapted to cling lightly to walls of a vagina proximate a transition zone between the vagina's introitus and its rugated internal vaginal tissue for anchoring said pouch in or slightly beyond said introitus; and an inserter attached to said pouch for retaining a distal portion of said pouch and facilitating insertion of said female condom into a vagina; wherein said inserter is generally dissolvable in the vaginal environment and said distal portion of said pouch is slidably retained in said inserter.