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Let’s face it, college students have sex. Of course this is no secret. The fact that sex among college students can crop up at the inoppertune is actually no secret. Having safe sex on the campus of College Of New Jersey in Ewing Township is safer thanks to student entrepreneur Kyle McCabe.

Business Insider reported today on the college student turned entrepreneur and startup Condam. Condam is short for Condom Ambulance.

Students about to get lucky can ping McCabe by way of Condam’s website at condam.net. Once an order is placed McCabe dons a hat with a blue police beacon in the top and comes to the rescue of young lovers.

McCabe also has a more discreet package where he won’t come to the door with blue lights blazing.

The website has several condoms to choose from and customers can pick up anywhere from 1 to 10. Of course the more condoms you buy the cheaper the cost. McCabe offers express hours service from 7pm-3am Friday and Saturday nights.

Right now the service is only available at McCabe’s school, but perhaps expansion or franchising could be in the cards for the future.

We’ll be curious to see what McCabe’s future holds and what other businesses ideas he comes up with. Condam definitely makes for an interesting “lemonade stand” business.

Pennsylvania Startup: Dollar Rubber Club, What Do You Think They Do? Interview

You may be surprised to find out that grown men still get school girl giddy about buying condoms at the local drugstore. I’m in my thirties and still see the discomfort that some of my friends my age have going into WahlGreens and buying condoms. The experience is compounded when you have to ask the pharmacist or store worker where the condoms are located.

There’s a chance that you could bump into your ex-girlfriend, your girlfriends mom, someone you went to school with or someone that knows your parents. Even in you late 20’s and 30’s this can be a source of embarrassment or at the least, a slightly uncomfortable situation.

Picture this scenario, you go into your local CVS thinking that tonight may be the night you have sex with your new girlfriend for the first time, and then when you’re coming down the condom aisle, purchase in hand, your new girlfriend shows up to pick up a prescription. These things happen all the time.

That’s why Dan Elwell and Anthony Eagleton, the co-founders of “Dollar Rubber Club” have gone head first into the condom by mail business.

Dollar Rubber Clubs condoms are priced competitively, come in discreet packaging and are even sent with a little silk bag that you could keep in your sock drawer.

In the interview below the break Elwell explains why the condom business, and how they stockpile condoms and turn orders around same time to keep the customers satisfied.