Marcel Winatschek

A Product Nobody Asked For and Yet Here We Are

People who use flavored condoms are, fine, whatever, I’m not judging. Use your strawberry condom. Live fully. But a Dutch company called Cannadom surveyed the landscape of banana, cinnamon, and assorted fruit prophylactics and decided what the market needed was cannabis. Hemp-flavored condoms. Fifty of them for roughly forty euros.

The opener practically writes itself—hey, want to try my weed condom?—and I have genuine respect for any product that commits this completely to its own bit. If the seduction angle doesn’t land, you could just suck on one yourself. Weirder things have happened on a Tuesday night. The real question is what the hemp flavor is even approximating, since actual weed doesn’t taste like much until you’re already on the other side of it, but that’s probably not the demographic doing rigorous product research.