Lady Protex
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
notes: label: Description
content: This Lady Protex brand condom was manufactured and distributed by National Sanitary Laboratories, Inc. of Lincolnwood, Illinois in 1986. The “ultra-thin condom” claims to allow Super Sensitivity and is billed as “for today’s woman.” The white box with pink text claims to be “Effective, Safe, and Natural/Extremely transparent yet offers maximum strength/Reservoir end/Finely Lubricated.”
label: Description
content: Beginning in the 1980s, condom buyers increasingly came to include women. Companies like National Sanitary Laboratories began to market condoms aggressively to women, using traditionally "feminine" colors such as pink in their packaging. Condoms were also given distinctly female names such as the one used here.
label: Description
content: Protex condoms were often available from a variety of vending machines. Throughout the twentieth century, vending machines were an easy way to discreetly distribute condoms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Lincolnwood
label: place distributed
content: United States: Illinois, Lincolnwood
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: Subject
content: Sex
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0416.039
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0416.039
label: accession number
content: 1989.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condom
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom, novelty
label: Other Terms
content: Condom; Contraceptive Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm