Are Olympic athletes *really* using this many condoms?

From ancient linen barriers to industrial rubber, the history of condoms traces how epidemics, morality, science, and social changes have shaped modern contraception.

India is home to one of the world's youngest populations, a generation stepping into its most intimate and reproductive years. Yet condoms remain strikingly underused despite their proven benefit of ...

Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr Prosper Akanbong, has said that the commission is looking into developing larger condom sizes for Ghanaian males. Speaking in an interview with Joy ...

With Carnival approaching, the Ministry of Health has reinforced the importance of using condoms and other methods to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs), not only during the festivities ...

Olympic village has run out of condoms just three days into the 2026 Winter Olympics, with athletes in Milan Cortina, Italy, already having used 10,000 condoms. The Milan Cortina Olympics 2026 is ...

Oral sex can still spread sexually transmitted infections (STIs), even though pregnancy isn’t a risk. Gonorrhea, genital herpes, and syphilis are commonly passed this way. Condoms and dental dams ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) celebrates International Condom Day (ICD) on Feb. 13 with the simple message — “Just Use It!” — to put condoms, one of the most powerful and cost-effective tools in ...

Could a sexy pregame influence their athletic performance? Surprisingly, there’s a bit of actual research on the topic, ...

On Valentine’s Day at the Milan Cortina Olympics, a renewed supply of free condoms for the athlete villages was promised by ...

Free condoms for athletes have been a mainstay of the Olympics since the ‘80s, but Italy is proving to be stingy with the contraceptives. Olympians at the Milano Cortina Winter Games burned through ...