Condoms
date: label: date made
content: after 1972
name: label: maker
content: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This cardboard box features an image of a man and woman in close contact with one another. The box held a dozen non-lubricated Conceptrol Shields condoms. Described as "extra senstive [and] contoured for better fit," these condoms had a reservoir tip which helped prevent tears and rips.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the box reads “Conceptrol / Shields / Non-lubricated / Extra sensitive / Contoured for better fit / Reservoir tip / ONE DOZEN PROPHYLACTICS.” An inscription on the bottom reads in part “Manufactured for / ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION / Raritan, New Jersey 08869.”
label: Description
content: Conceptrol Shields brand non-lubricated condoms were manufactured by the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation of Raritan, New Jersey beginning in around 1972. The condoms were contoured for a better fit and made of thinner latex for greater sensitivity. The reservoir tip prevented the condom from breaking.
label: Description
content: In 1972, the court case, Eisenstadt v. Baird, established the right of unmarried couples to access contraceptives. In response, condom manufacturers like Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation began advertising and selling their condoms more openly as both a contraceptive device and a means of preventing disease. Sold before the HIV-AIDS pandemic, these condoms were primarily marketed sold as a contraceptive to heterosexual couples.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Raritan
label: made at
content: United States: New Jersey, Raritan
topic: label: general subject association; web subject
content: Sex
label: general subject association; used; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gladys Abell and Lester D. Johnson, Jr., M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0760.081
label: accession number
content: 1981.0760
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0760.081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
label: Other Terms
content: Contraceptives; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 5 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.175 cm