Interview with the inventor of the ribbed condom

When the first ribbed condom came off the mold in 1970, the inventor field-tested it. "It really wasn't all that great," he said.

In fact, nobody thinks ribbed condoms are better than unribbed ones, but they continue to sell well.

From Brian VanHooker's profile of Bill Crawley, inventor of the ribbed condom:

While those ridges were supposedly meant exclusively for a woman's pleasure, there are tons of reviews online citing how they don't feel like anything at all.