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Monday, October 24, 2005 12:00 AM

Rubber match

What do you get when you design a condom that men want to use? Sued. Inside the twisted patent battle over prophylactics.
By Andrew Leonard

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  • Monday, October 24, 2005 10:02 AM

    What happened to Salon?

    I have to respond to a letter complaining about "titillation" posted anonymously below, because comments like this have become a pet peeve of mine.

    I've been employed by Salon for nine years, so I can say this pretty authoritatively -- stories about sexual issues have been a staple of our coverage from the very beginning. We've had at least three columnists who wrote about nothing else but sex. Our founding editor, David Talbot, wrote a book called "Burning Desire: Sex In America."

    Alas, advertisers tend not to like sex, even if readers manifestly do, so it's always been a struggle to keep writing and reporting about what we want, which, in addition to politics, technology, entertainment and everything else, includes SEX!

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