Like Fire To One's Heart's Content
date: label: date made
content: ca 2010
name: label: maker
content: Yirenbao Biochemical Product Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This condom with “essential oil” lubricant was manufactured by Yirenbao Biochemical Product Co., Ltd. of Shenyang, Liaoning, China around 1998. The package is orange with white, silver, and yellow English and Chinese script and a picture of a couple on the front. The back has more Chinese text with the English text “This product is pure Chinese medicinal preparation..." The condom included a numbing agent to “make the passion last.”
label: Description
content: By the early 2000s, Chinese manufacturers had begun overtaking American manufacturers in producing condoms for not only the American market but also the global market. Chinese governmental policies which have long encouraged the free distribution of condoms aided the rise of many of the country’s home-grown condom companies. In recent years, Chinese companies have manufactured and sold their own condom brands but Chinese entrepreneurs have also bought condom manufacturers such as Ansell, an Australian company which produced condoms in Alabama.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Liaoning, Shenyang
topic: label: Subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: HIV-AIDS
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: 2010.0139.011
label: accession number
content: 2010.0139
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0139.011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contraceptive
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: latex (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 19/32 in x 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 6.604 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in x 1/8 in; 9.525 cm x 6.6675 cm x .3175 cm