It's like Christmas!

[rivka]

I came in to work this morning and discovered that my free samples from the ID lubricant people had arrived. Here's the haul:

- Foil packets of strawberry-kiwi and pina colada-flavored lube.
- Plastic pillows of banana, watermelon, bubblegum blast, and cool mint-flavored lube.
- Ziploc bag containing two Lucky Boy brand condoms and a foil packet of wild cherry-flavored lube, emblazoned with a sticker that says "Nobody strikes out with a Lucky Boy."
- Two plastic pillows of "ID Sensation Warming Liquid."
- Two foil packets of ID Velvet, their super-premium silicone-based lube.
- Two foil packets of ID Glide water-based lube.
- Three plastic pillows of ID Millennium silicone-based lube.
- Seven plastic pillows of ID Glide, in various sizes.

Plus a catalog! I'm going to get to go on a shopping spree, at warehouse prices available only to nonprofits! I'm drawn to the case of lube samples (water-based, silicone-based, warming, and flavored), 1008 for $160. I'm also thinking of getting some 1-oz bottles of plain lube ($1.46 each) to use as demonstrations/giveaways when we do our Sexual Communication Skills workshops, and some larger bottles (maybe packaged together, a 5.5-oz bottle of plain lube and a 4.8-oz bottle of flavored lube) to use as patient incentives. (They get to choose from a basket of assorted incentives, including gift cards, gift certificates, and miscellaneous gift items.)

And polyurethane dental dams (no taste of latex), $59 for a box of 100! Harm reduction kits for injection drug users with alcohol pads, cotton balls, and rinse caps, $119 for a box of 100!

I'm going to resist the "Property of DUREX Varsity Swim Team" T-shirt with the picture of a sperm, and the World AIDS Day condoms packaged like lollipops, and the $80 cutaway female pelvis for modeling the use of female condoms and diaphragms. But I'm still going to have lots of fun.

Comments

[geminigirl]

The pelvis is actually something we tried and tried and tried to get for a long time.

I want the t-shirt. :)

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

$80 sounds downright reasonable for a cutaway model of any body part; granted, I don't usually shop for them a lot.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it means anything important or not, but your link to an earlier entry has a different protection (that is to say, security settings... let's avoid the really easy jokes) level than this one.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's right, sorry. It had some complaints about work that I didn't want to make publicly available. The only relevant portion to this post is the part about me calling ID up to request some free samples to use in our "Prevention for Positives" program.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

You really do have the best job EVER. :-)

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

You're just sweet-talking me in hopes that I'll buy you some "Plum Crazy" condoms "Pulsating with Purple Pleasure." I know you.

[lcohen]

while me, i am eyeing the polyurethane dental dams....

have fun!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I have an ID T-shirt that says "Got lube?" which I couldn't resist one time on a shopping spree through their catalog.

We had a case of their tricolor red white and blue condoms which we used for the 4th of July one year. We also loved the condom lollipops and those were always a big hit with patients. Just sayin'.

Ah, the memories.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

We had a case of their tricolor red white and blue condoms which we used for the 4th of July one year.

*flip flip flip*

Oh my God! They look exactly like Rocket Pops. That's just wrong.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

They were lots of fun. And we had WAY WAY too much fun coming up with "patriotic" condom slogans, many of which were R-rated enough to be un-usable.

[geminigirl]

I'm not the only one who thought that when I saw them-I picked a couple up in San Francisco when I was there...

[oursin.livejournal.com]

cutaway female pelvis for modeling the use of female condoms and diaphragms

I don't know if it's the same model, but for picture of Dr Helena Wright brandishing something similar, c. 1960, see here. Apparently whenever she tried to patent it, the Patent Office staff were convulsed with sniggers.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

That sounds great. I know someone who needs that swim team shirt.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

ID? Company name, I assume. But do they have a link?

(And only $80 for the cutaway pelvis? If I found myself doing lots of Our Whole Lives (http://www.uua.org/owl) classes, that might be a decent investment...)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

http://www.idlube.com/index.htm

It's worth calling up and asking for the catalog - they have lots of literature and educational materials in addition to lubes.

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

Wow, I want that t-shirt too. That sounds great!