Protex Scentuals For Today's Woman
date: label: date made
content: 1984-1989
notes: label: Description
content: These Protex Scentuals brand condoms were manufactured and distributed by National Sanitary Laboratories, Inc. of Lincolnwood, Illinois in 1984. The purple package bills itself as “For Today’s Woman” and describes the condom as “Super Thin Ribbed & Dotted Condoms.” The reverse of the condom reads “For Today’s Woman/Stimulating ribbed & dotted surface/Super thin for maximum sensitivity/Natural transparency/Reservoir end/Finely lubricated.”
label: Description
content: Beginning in the 1980s, condom buyers increasingly came to include women. Throughout the twentieth century, vending machines were an easy way to discreetly distribute condoms. Protex condoms were often sold through vending machines.
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: Women's Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0416.031
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0416.031
label: accession number
content: 1989.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
label: Other Terms
content: contraceptive, 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