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Video: Would You Use A "Gun" To Put On A Condom?
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 7, 2013
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Last month, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a challenge: anyone who can come up with a "transformative idea" to reinvent the condom (that "significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use") will get $100,000 grant. While our own submission, "The Busta Rhymes Proposal," didn't really go anywhere, the folks over at the Slingshot Channel have come up with their own (terrifying) device: the Condom Applicator Slingshot Gun.
"Nothing fasincates male human beings more than guns and sex," says inventor Joerg Sprave. "So when we combine both, you must see the huge potential this has." Yes, it has potential—the potential to terrify any male who comes in contact with the device. It helps somewhat that Sprave keeps giggling at the invention, although as one Redditor put it, "This guy would make a great Bond villain."
This also isn't the first time that Sprave has had some fun with those D.I.L.D.O.s. Below, watch as he tries out his "Launcher of Love."
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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