# Spongeworthy? - The sponge is back!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058 "2003-03-04T19:21:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058/1 "2003-03-04T19:21:34Z")

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[The contraceptive that led women to evaluate dates as “sponge-worthy” is back.](http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/69917.htm)

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> After eight years off the market, Today’s Sponge has been revived by a small Bergen County, N.J., firm, Allendale Pharmaceuticals, and is being sold on two Canadian Internet sites. Roughly 250 million polyurethane Today’s Sponges, which prevent pregnancy with a spermicide and by covering the cervix, were sold from 1983 to 1995, developing a fiercely loyal following. When the manufacturer took the sponge off the market in 1995 rather than upgrade a plant, many users began scouring stores for the remaining stock and hoarding it.
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> That inspired a “Seinfeld” episode in which the character Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, requires her dates to prove that they’re worth her depleting her stockpile.

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**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058/2 "2003-03-04T19:59:09Z")

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That was a great episode! I didn’t realize it was a real product.

Isn’t it amazing how life imitates art imitating life?

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058/3 "2003-03-04T21:12:38Z")

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_Spongebob Squarepants_—the X-rated version!

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058/4 "2003-03-04T23:33:29Z")

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Other brands of the sponge have been available online/through Canada all along, as I remind my dr. every time she asks me what kind of bc I use.

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**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongeworthy-the-sponge-is-back/159058/5 "2003-03-05T01:44:17Z")

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It’s kinda frightening that Spongebob Squarepants _did_ immediately spring to mind when I saw the thread title… I’m not even a mother, although I am a college student. Maybe that explains it.