A patent has recently been filed for a musical condom. It is, apparently, a chip-controlled piezoelectric sound transducer which plays a melody or a voiced message during intercourse whether the contracts of the sound-playing unit are closed and the transducer activated.
No what could the health departments do with an innovation like this!
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