The most talked about article on SNS news site mixi news today was the news that Sagami Industries were about to launch the world’s thinnest condom, the “Sagami Original 001”, for general sale.
Netizens were quick to use the article as an opportunity to poke fun at their own sex lives, but also pointed out that you cannot round up 18 microns, or 0.018mm, to 0.1mm. But then Sagami already have a “Sagami 002″…
From mixi news:
0.01 Millimeters! Sagami Rubber Industries To Sell World’s Thinnest Condom “Sagami Original 001”
Sagami Rubber Industries will start selling the world’s thinnest condom, “Sagami Original 001” across Japan from 1 September.
The product that will go on sale is manufactured to be 25% thinner than the Sagami Original 002 (24 microns), and is a brand new product that has a membrane which is only 18 microns thick. The company boasts that the technology to realize such a thin membrane is at the highest level in the world.
The material used to make the condoms is not rubber, but polyurethane. Polyurethane is an material which has no ill effects to health, and is even used in the medical field for parts of artificial hearts and for artificial blood vessels and catheters. Those with rubber allergies can also use them safely.
Polyurethane has excellent thermal conductivity, so they say that users can get a natural sensation from use, since they can immediately feel the warmth of their partner. Even though the condoms are thin, the burst pressure, which demonstrates the strength of the membrane, is 3 to five times stronger than previous condoms made from rubber.
The product was available for test marketing from 18 November 2013 through the end of May 2014 in Tokyo stores as well as on some website. During test marketing, sales were much higher than projected sales, which resulted in the product selling out temporarily.
Now, manufacturing arrangements have been made, and sales can begin all over Japan. The price will be 1,200 yen for a box of five, excluding tax.
Comments from mixi:
[Mixi comments do not feature netizen names; in order of most upvoted]
Fucking hell! No one to use them with and no chance to use them! Hope they break! (´；ω；`)
Wow, Sagami have really done their best for those guys who always want to do it without a condom.
Even if the rubber is thin, don’t mean a thing if the love is thin!!
This is a bit irrelevant, but when I was in middle school, there was a kid called “Kondo Musashi” [The surname and the first syllable of the first name sound like “condom”] (笑)
No matter how excellent the armor developed, there’s nothing you can do if you have no battlefield for it.
As Kato Taka [a porn actor] once said: “Men who don’t use condoms are the same as men who can’t greet people properly”.
Zero zero wonderful! (Old joke..) I’ve been using Sagami Original since I was a kid…They feel sweet and creamy to wear, and I felt that, being given such a splendid condom, I must really be someone special.
If you round up 18 microns it’s 2mm, isn’t it? Bit cheeky saying that they’re bloody 0.01.
How about sending a box to Ms. Natsume? [Refers to TV presenter Natsume Miku, who was fired for being pictured buying a box of Sagami condoms in 2009].
Amaaaazing!
With the Olympics coming up, I’m planning on buying a load of shares in condom companies.
I’ve seen people saying stuff on Twitter like, someone goes to buy an umbrella and some condoms, and the store clerk says, “Are you going to use it right away?”, and the customer goes, “Yup, both of ’em”.(笑)
This isn’t something that should be an article on mixi, it should be reported on TBS’s “Asa-chan”. The comment about Natsume Miku just underscores how good the product is I guess. Plus, more so than that comment from the scientist, I think it is more persuasive…
SEX with condoms is heresy! www
For guys, the psychology the thinner the condom the better, really works. Still, I wonder how much of a difference women can really feel when it’s a difference of a few millimeters? That’s something that really interests me.
Me and Chihiro ain’t never used ’em wwwwww Usually I just stick it in raw.
Everyone’s comments are way more interesting than this article, so I’m commenting www
Guess the number of guys who were doing it without a condom because they were using the excuse of a rubber allergy is going to drop…
Th excuse “I have a condom allergy” won’t fly any more.
