Durex are a shite company. Their motivation is profit. Their only interest in the customer is avoiding bad P.R.
Increased competition has made them improve some of their products, nothing else. Their standard condom used to be far too short even for a less-than-average length penis. In other words, they would risk coming off because Durex were saving on materials.
They also to my knowledge tried to blackmail a reviewer that tried to point out that compared to other condoms they were not very good. They were also difficult to unroll and had few variations available.
I suspect their come back was a non-latex condom that was marketed with the name Durex barely visible. It was taken up by Gum and family planning clinics fir latex-intolerant customers. Then they brought out silly gimmicks like a vibrating ring (which did fuck all and is barely sold now).
In South Africa (a country where sexual abuse with threats is apparently rife) their Twitter campaign included edgy sex jokes including a tweet that supported sexual abuse.
Why did God give men penises? So they’d have at least one way to shut a woman up. #DurexJoke
Or slightly sick ads like this:
External Link/Members OnlyThey got into trouble for lacing condoms with benzocaine in India to “make it more pleasurable” (which just numbs your cock so you don’t come so quick).
Or this crappy slogan that rightly got banned in Thailand:
(translation from Thai of the Facebook ad as) “28% of women who say no give in at the end”
Russia banned them a couple of years ago for faulty paperwork (Russia ffs!). Though I don’t hold that against them so much — just shows they are a company that doesn’t give a fuck about doing things properly.
I make no apology for boycotting them. They are cunts. And most of their products are still pretty crap.
