Gentry with Genitrol
date: label: date made
content: c. 1980
label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Akwell Industries
notes: label: Description
content: This Gentry brand condom was manufactured by Akwell Industries Incorporated of Dothan, Alabama during the second half of the 20th century (around 1980). The red, white, and blue box bears the label “Gentry, with Genitrol*” and describes Genitrol as a lubricant with an “exclusive formula for unnoticed protection and maximum natural sensitivity.” The back of the box asserts that the condom “makes every other prophylactic seem old-fashioned. Use it with the knowledge that you have purchased the finest prophylactic known to man.”
label: Description
content: Gentry condoms were available for purchase in vending machines during the 1980s. Throughout much of the mid to late twentieth century, vending machines provided an easy way to discreetly distribute condoms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1989.0416.023
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0416.023
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