Flavored condoms... according to Dan Savage.

So blatant, so blunt, so matter of fact. So good.

from Seattle Stranger:

I don't understand flavored condoms. My frist assumption was that they were for performing protected oral sex, but on second thought I realized that there is no way in hell that any flavor would ever cover that nasty latex smell and/or taste. Therefore my question is what the fuck are they really for? Are they suppose to be used to spice up the penis or pussy for post-sex oral? Who gives head after condom sex really? Are they really meant for marathon sex sessions only? Or maybe were they just created as a novelty sex item that no one really sues for flavor?

Carrot and Tomatocat

My answer after the jump...

Flavored condoms were heavily promoted during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. Back then we were obligated to pretend that all sex acts were equally risky—kinda like we pretended that people of all sexual orientations were equally at risk. If gay men needed to use condoms every time for anal intercourse then, by God, straight people needed to use 'em every time for vaginal intercourse and everybody needed to use condoms for oral sex (and "latex barriers," a.k.a. "dental dams," a.k.a. "a joke," for eating pussy and rimming). But sucking on a latex condom is pretty gross, as latex tastes pretty awful, and so flavored condoms—strawberry! cherry! bubblegum!

But you know what you want to taste when you're sucking cock? Cock. But somehow it never occurred to anyone to produce a cock-flavored condom.

These days flavored condoms sit on shelves in sex shops, and in bowls in college health clinics, gathering dust with dentals dams. Occasionally someone who doesn't like giving head, or is sleeping with someone who doesn't like giving head, buys or picks up a few flavored condoms, in the hopes that their blowjob-averse partner will have a change of heart after sucking on a flavored condom. Never happens.