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Bring back the Dough-boy! {updated! For real!}

April 30, 2010 3 Comments

So, we got the coolest email last night:

Hi Rob & Carey,

I just watched an episode of Chelsea Lately where one of her guests mentioned that they used a prophylactic kit. After searching up & down the internet to no avail, I finally stumbled on your site.

It literally looks like your site may be the only place on the Internet that describes what a prophylactic kit is, and thought it’d be mighty helpful if you started a Wikipedia article on prophylactics kits so others might have a source of reference!

Thanks,
David

Totally awesome. Our little antique Weenie Rescue Kit post comes to good use! Rob took some pretty cool photos, and I’d totally forgotten about this post. Enjoy your newly learned thing for the day! Thanks for the heads up, David!

The second World War generated a hotbed for invention—synthetic rubber, the M1 Garand rifle, radar, freeze drying, SPAM, advances in penicillin—but none more important than the Dough-Boy Prophylactic kit, of which I am down to my final box.

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The idea is simple—a tube of ointment, a weenie hood with drawstring, and some simple-to-read, hyper-modest directions.

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I chose not to engage the drawstrings in this demonstration.

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References like “canal” and “parts” were about as detailed as these directions were willing to venture.

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Keep your powder dry; put condoms where they belong—on the end of your rifle during a rainstorm. Who needs prevention when you have Dough-Boys, right men?

-Rob

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: Dough-Boy, historical medical devices, prophylactic kit, WWII

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Comments

  1. Karen Ehlers says

    October 28, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Carey,
    Where in the world did you ever find these?

    Reply
  2. elena says

    May 1, 2010 at 1:02 am

    WHAT THE??!!

    LMAO!

    Reply
  3. mary faith says

    May 1, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    this is just pure awesomeness. i mean, seriously? who would have this except you two? dying over here!!… i love.

    Reply

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