According to Wikipedia, in 2016, DKT sold over 604 million condoms, 88 million cycles of oral contraceptives, 25 million injectable contraceptives, and 5 million IUDs for an average cost of less than 2.00 for two years’ worth of protection.īoth charities continue to receive millions of dollars from Adam and Eve, thanks in part to Mr. Harvey founded another charitable organization with funds from Adam and Eve–DKT International which promotes family planning and HIV prevention in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Just last year PSI saved the lives of 9,246 mothers, prevented 3,896,671 unintended pregnancies, stopped 234,367 new HIV infections, and avoided 379,286 deaths due to diseases like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia that most threaten young children. According to their website, their 2015 revenues were $652,776,127 million and the organization: So, in 1970, they founded Adam and Eve.Īdam and Eve made enough money that, in 1970, the two established Population Services International (PSI), a nonprofit global health organization that focuses on improving the general and reproductive health of the world’s poorest populations. He and a doctor named Tim Black decided that they’d sell condoms (they initially thought their main market was college students) via mail and use the profits to fund a non-profit focused on global family-planning in developing nations. In the late 60s, a UNC grad student in Public Health named Phil Harvey traveled to India and, after traveling with a humanitarian NGO, decided that a lack of family planning created many of the third world’s problems.

And that’s what Adam and Eve started out for and that’s what they still do to this day. I’ve been a fan ever since.īut here’s the thing, as cool as sex toys are, making the world a better place is even cooler. In 1983, I moved up the road from Durham to Chapel Hill to go to grad school and there I discovered a store called Adam and Eve. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and despite being a wild child complete with toe socks and elephant jeans, I didn’t see a vibrator until I graduated from college. In these divided times, there’s one thing we can all agree on: We’re running this column again because we love this company… and you!

If you want to spice up your Valentine’s Day, you can’t go wrong with Adam and Eve.

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