Extra small condoms for 12 year-old boys go on sale in Switzerland

Alexandra Williams in Geneva Published: 8:13PM GMT 03 March 2010

Called the Hotshot, the condom has been constructed after supervision investigate showed twelve to14-year-olds did not have use of sufficient insurance when carrying sex.

The study, conducted on interest of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people elderly 10 to 20.

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It showed some-more twelve to 14-year-olds were carrying sex, in some-more aged with the 1990s.

The Hotshot condoms, that cost 7fr60 (�4.70) for a parcel of six, have been combined by Lamprecht AG, a heading condom manufacturer in Switzerland.

The association has pronounced the UK would be "top priority" if they stretched abroad, deliberation that it has the tip teenage conceiving physically rate in Europe.

Nysse Norballe, a orator for the company, said: "At the impulse we are usually producing the Hotshot in Switzerland. But the UK is positively a really tasteful marketplace given there is a really high rate of underage conception. The UK would really be tip priority if we marketed abroad."

A customary condom has a hole of 2ins (5.2cm) in some-more aged with the Hotshot"s hole of 1.7ins (4.5cm). Both are the same length 7.4ins (19cm).

According to a German investigate of 12,970 thirteen to 20-year-olds, a entertain pronounced a customary condom was as well large.

Family formulation groups and the Swiss Aids Federation campaigned to have the Hotshot constructed after a series of studies, together with the supervision investigate researched at the Centre for Development and Personality Psychology at Basel University.

Nancy Bodmer, who headed the research, said: "The outcome that repelled us endangered immature boys who arrangement assumingly unsure behaviour. They have some-more of a bent not to strengthen themselves. They do not have a really grown passionate knowledge. They do not assimilate the consequences of what they are you do and leave the immature girls to take caring of the consequences.

"The formula of this investigate indicate that early impediment creates sense."

The age of agree in Switzerland is 16, nonetheless if the age disproportion is not some-more than 3 years there will be no punishment. Other concessions exist if the comparison chairman is not some-more than twenty or believed the younger chairman to be at slightest 16.

The Swiss beginning comes as the UK supervision announces an renovate of the teenage conceiving physically plan after new total showed source rate between 18s were not descending fast enough.

The UK has the tip teenage conceiving physically rate in Europe.

In 1999, the supervision affianced to separate the teenage source rate inside of 10 years.

But interpretation expelled last week from The Office for National Statistics shows it has obviously unsuccessful to have any poignant impact.