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Online company offers discreet condoms to Lebanon

Yalla Condoms is selling contraceptives and other products over the Internet, saving its customers embarrassing trips to the drugstore in progressive Lebanon, where sexual taboos still linger.
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For every embarrassed person who has walked into a grocery store or pharmacy in Lebanon and bought a few extra things so the cashier didn't think condoms were the trip's sole purpose, there's now a way to avoid this predicament: Order online in bulk.

Yalla Condoms, launched just over a week ago, is an entrepreneurial venture concocted by two Lebanese 20-somethings during a party in Beirut. Based on their perception of wide Lebanese discomfort when buying condoms, they decided that what the country needed — and what they could provide — was a discreet way to provide a vast array of condoms, lubricants and various sex-related accessories. It would enable the masses to practice safe sex and broaden their horizons, all in one place. In a society where the neighborhood pharmacy may be owned by the family’s landlord, not having to go endure the awkward dance of buying contraceptives — particularly nontraditional ones — such a service is appealing to many.

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