A few days ago, I discovered Callvin, a site that offers personalised condoms, or condoms with original packaging.
This is where the (more or less famous) condom comes from, featuring Dark Vador. This condom, also available in an English version, reads “I will not be his father”.
He tells me he’d known about it for ages. But still, I’m delighted by this find. So I’m writing a mini-article to tell you about it.
It’s thepackaging which is pretty, not the condom. So you won’t necessarily feel like ruining the artwork just to use what’s inside. It’s not a proper sex toy, then. But it is still a fun object, sometimes cute, and at a perfectly reasonable price (2 euros a condom).
The already illustrated ones
The ones that are very cute
- The collection “Péchés Mignons”, illustrated by Arthur de Pins. Sexy and fun comics with rather endearing characters. This collection features two pages made up of twelve panels (1 panel = 1 condom), two three-panel short stories, and stories on a single
condomvignette.
- The collection “Joe Bar Team”, featuring the characters from the famous comic strip.
- The Mario Bros or Space invaders condoms.
- Of course, the condoms Star Wars…
- And so as not to make anyone jealous, the Star Trek condom with Spock making a declaration of love to you in Vulcan…
- And not really to make anyone jealous, you’ve also got the Lord of the Rings condoms with Gandalf heroically blocking the passage of sperm. This time, it’s really not sexy. But whatever. It’s not the point, really.
The ones that make you choose abstinence, or run for your life
- The political condoms: ideal for ruin a libido for good. They’re seriously scary, that’s all. I’ll avoid going into this too much, so as not to feel sick. Same for the Pope-themed condoms: they’re absolutely tacky.
- The condoms “Hi, I’m a chav, plus a massive prat. Fancy a smash?”. So first off, you’ve got the chauvinists, or the football-themed ones. The two often go hand in hand. Then there are also TV references: something that alludes to “Un dîner presque parfait”, or to “Pimp my ride”, for example, ouch ouch ouch…
- The fake geek condoms for a man who wants to pretend to be a geek to explain away his acne: the Microsoft firewall logo, that’s still a bit daft…
- And then, you’ve got this too, which leaves a slightly icky impression…
The personalised condoms
The personalised condoms are sold in packs of at least six. The customisation options are quite good:
- You choose the background colour: white, silver, gold or copper.
- You can insert one or more texts (by choosing the font, size, colour, position and orientation).
- Same for the images, which you can select from a gallery provided by the site, or upload yourself. The images are resizable and rotatable.
And here’s what it looks like, combined with my unrivalled artistic talent:
(But you can also make a nice thing, you know.)
