Love is in the air: coffee condoms

FEBRUARY 19:  This month millions of lovers will celebrate their love for each other on Valentines Day. While many will purchase the traditional red rose and box of chocolates combination, others will seek something a little more untraditional. Ah yes....the smell of "love" is in the air....and what exactly does "love" smell like? Well, apperantly......like coffee!! 

Doctors have long argued over the health effects of coffee, but its reputation looks set to receive a boost thanks to a new flavoured condom that aims to encourage safer sex in Ethiopia.

Around 300,000 of the coffee condoms were sold in one week when they were launched in September, according to the US charity DKT International. It hopes to tap into Ethiopia's coffee mania as a means to tackle high rates of HIV in the country, which is said to have invented the drink.

The charity said that with 2.1% of Ethiopians infected with Aids - and more than 7% in the capital, Addis Ababa - the flavoured prophylactic was more than a novelty.

"Everybody likes the flavour of coffee," says a DKT spokeswoman.

Links: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/02/aids.ethiopia

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307658,00.html