Pet Rubber
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980s
name: label: maker
content: Kimono
notes: label: Description
content: These Rubber Ducky brand condoms were distributed by entrepreneur Steve Finley of Irving, Texas during the late 1980s. The box features an image of a cartoon duck giving a “thumbs up” signal. The box claims that Rubber Ducky condoms are “The fit that won’t quit.” The box contained 3 condoms which were individually tested and lubricated for sensitivity.
label: Description
content: Finley tried to market his Rubber Ducky condoms to a younger audience. In an interview with D Magazine Finley said, "Rubber Ducky condoms are hip, fashionable. Kids are having sex at a much earlier age now. With such a young audience you’ve got to make using condoms a cool thing to do and at the same time convey the message that not wearing condoms is just plain stupid.” The Rubber Ducky theme would have had a strong nostalgic appeal to adolescents in the 1980s as they were among the earliest audiences of Sesame Street.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sex
label: associated subject; web subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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: 1988.0218.02
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0218.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rubber
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm x .3175 cm