Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Trojan is a brand name of condoms and sexual lubricants manufactured by the Church & Dwight Company. 70.5 percent of condoms purchased in United States drugstores are Trojan brand. Trojan condoms were the idea of an enterprising Presbyterian from upstate New York named Merle Leland Youngs. When Youngs moved to New York City in the second decade of the 20th century, the major condom manufacturer was Julius Schmid, who made Ramses and other reliable brands as early as the 1880s. Other elements of the condom trade were run by seedy, fly-by-night manufacturers selling cheap wares.The Comstock Law of 1873 forbade the sale of birth control, so condoms were instead sold as protection against disease. Still, many pharmacists were loath to stock a product associated with sexual vice, and consumers often had to buy their condoms in the backrooms of bars. Trojan began advertising condoms in 1927 through an ad placed in a trade magazine for pharmacists.. }
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- Trojan_(brand) abstract "Trojan is a brand name of condoms and sexual lubricants manufactured by the Church & Dwight Company. 70.5 percent of condoms purchased in United States drugstores are Trojan brand. Trojan condoms were the idea of an enterprising Presbyterian from upstate New York named Merle Leland Youngs. When Youngs moved to New York City in the second decade of the 20th century, the major condom manufacturer was Julius Schmid, who made Ramses and other reliable brands as early as the 1880s. Other elements of the condom trade were run by seedy, fly-by-night manufacturers selling cheap wares.The Comstock Law of 1873 forbade the sale of birth control, so condoms were instead sold as protection against disease. Still, many pharmacists were loath to stock a product associated with sexual vice, and consumers often had to buy their condoms in the backrooms of bars. Trojan began advertising condoms in 1927 through an ad placed in a trade magazine for pharmacists.".