Extra Small Condoms For 12-Year-Old Boys Go On Sale In Switzerland

[By Alexandra Williams, Daily Telegraph | Wednesday, 3 March, 2010.]
Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12- to 14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex. The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20. It showed more 12- to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s.

The Hotshot condoms, which cost 7fr60 (£4.70) for a packet of six, have been created by Lamprecht A.G., a leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland. The company has said the U.K. would be "top priority" if they expanded abroad, considering that it has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

Nysse Norballe, a spokesman for the company, said: "At the moment we are only producing the Hotshot in Switzerland. But the U.K. is certainly a very attractive market since there is a very high rate of underage conception. The U.K. would definitely be top priority if we marketed abroad." (Full story here.)