Las Vegas Weekly

January 9, 2009 · 1:44 PM

Single-serving condom dispenser aims not to kill the mood

By Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown

You've really got to give it to the small-scale entrepreneurs at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.

Take, for instance, Gabriel Carreon, 37, a musician from Costa Mesa, CA, who has invented a personal condom dispenser. He really, really wants you to give it to him. Well, if you're a lady, anyway.

His company is called Don't Kill the Mood, and the product he's introducing at the Expo is the C-Box, a small, discreet plastic unit that dispenses single-serving rubbers like a blackjack shoe deck.

"The purpose of it is to not kill the mood," Carreon says. "If you use condoms to have sex, it goes smoothly. There's no more leaving somebody on the bed, there's no more fumbling in a drawer. When you start, you go to start to finish without interrupting anything."

Necessity, it has been said, is the mother of invention, and so it was in the case of the C-Box.

"About a year ago, an ex-girlfriend and I were getting it together one night, and I had actually set a condom out on my desk so I could get to it when the heat of the moment came. And when the time came, I was in the dark, fumbling around looking for the thing, pawing through flashlights, pens, all the stuff that was on my desk."

Mood? Killed. Carreon didn't score.

"I ended up hanging out in the shower for a little bit," he says. “And while I was in the shower, I thought, you know, I've gotta make something that's gonna hold these things."

Carreon says the C-Box has definitely helped his game. "But you still have to do the front-end work of getting someone to come home and test it out with you."

The C-Box retails for $39.95 (it's cheaper at the Expo), comes in black and white, and you can get it with fleur de lys or spider motifs.

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