{"id":640,"date":"2000-11-13T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2000-11-13T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2000\/11\/13\/the-invisible-condom-bergerons-concoction\/"},"modified":"2000-11-13T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2000-11-13T22:04:41","slug":"the-invisible-condom-bergerons-concoction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2000\/11\/13\/the-invisible-condom-bergerons-concoction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Condom &#8220;Bergeron&#8217;s concoction,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discover.com\/nov_00\/featinvisible.html\">The Invisible Condom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bergeron&#8217;s concoction, which he calls an &#8220;invisible condom&#8221; consists of two components. This first is a polymer gel that is liquid at room temperature and a gel at body temperature. On insertion the liquid can seep into the smallest vaginal folds, then turns into a gel that forms a semi-solid physical barrier to infective agents. The second ingredient is a germ killer such as sodium lauryl sulfate, a soapy substance that dissolves viral membranes and pops them open. Sodium lauryl sulfate is a chemical relative of lauric acid, a compound found in coconut oil and mother&#8217;s milk, which is a known microbe killer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invisible Condom &#8220;Bergeron&#8217;s concoction, which he calls an &#8220;invisible condom&#8221; consists of two components. This first is a polymer gel that is liquid at room temperature and a gel at body temperature. On insertion the liquid can seep into the smallest vaginal folds, then turns into a gel that forms a semi-solid physical barrier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}