We did and we’re sure many of you have over the years (go on, tell us your discoveries!), so we’ve rounded up 10 weird, clever, crafty and downright silly alternative uses for the humble condom.

1. The Condom Umbrella Cover

It’s probably not the kind of use for a condom that you’d immediately think of, but when you see it done, you realise that it’s actually quite clever.

Check out this suggestive video to get a glimpse of this in action! (We bet you didn’t think that was coming!).

2. The Condom Cake Icer

Why not ice a cake with a condom?

Never find a cake icing or frosting bag when you need one? Then how about using a condom instead!

If you put the thought of the extra lubrication that could end up on your cake icing to one side (ewww!), it’s kind of a clever idea, as the condom can be used as an icing bag, a small hole snipped at the end and, bingo, you’ve got a ready made icing device.

3. The Condom Dress

If you thought male condoms could only be worn by men, then think again. With a bit of imagination, male condoms can be worn by women too - in the form of a dress!

A condom dress featuring 480 strategically woven condoms was the star attraction of an exhibition in Riga, the capital of Latvia. A variety of condom styles and colours were used to create the dress, which just goes to show that condom variety is important.

You can get a glimpse of this crafty condom creation in this video.

4. The Condom Football

Clever condom ball

There may be times when you’ve been fooling around with your mates, blown air into  a condom and made a football, but in some parts of the world, there are children doing this seriously.

In Mozambique, for example, where toys and games are scarce, the children use condoms that are given out free for safe sex for alternative purposes. Several condoms are used in the ball creations and they’re cleverly tied up with raffia and have rags sewn together over them to produce a soft, light and very sturdy ball.

5. The Condom Stress Ball

Condoms are designed to be filled up, so it’s not surprising that someone’s come up with the idea of filling them with flour (isn’t it?!).

Yes, with some creative thinking, a condom and a bag of flour, you could quickly and effortlessly make your own stress ball. Just think of all the sexual stress you could relieve.

Intrigued? Check out the video clip to find out exactly how to make your own condom stress ball.

6. The Condom Golf Club Cover

Clever condom golf club cover

In a similar way to the condom umbrella cover, a condom – especially an extra long one – could be the ideal solution for housing your golf clubs.

They’re cheaper than conventional golf club covers, are nice and waterproof and easy to get on and off. And if you’re ever cut short and feel in the need for sex when you’re off playing golf, you’ll never be without a useful supply of condoms.

7. The Condom Rocket (or Condom Bomb)

If you can make balls from condoms, then how about rockets and bombs? One woman has tried this, as you can see for yourself in the funny video.

Heather LaCroix is shown attempting to make a rocket out of one condom, some Mentos and diet coke. It could very well have been successful, but in the end it turned into more of a condom bomb – quite a combination!

8. The Condom Portable Fish Tank

Remember the polythene bags that used to be used to house fish in at the fair? Well, they could easily have been condoms, couldn’t they?

Yes, a condom could serve as a jolly useful portable fish tank. Just think – when you’re cleaning out the fish tank, transporting a new fish home or going on holiday, you could pop your fish and some water in a condom and take it with you.

Wow, it holds fish, too?

9. The Comdom Dry Ice Holder

For another slightly bizarre experiment involving one condom, Heather LaCroix this time attempts to see what happens if you fill a condom with a lump of dry ice (not something most people have lying around).

It’s a rather bizarre idea, but if you want to see the results for yourself, then watch the video clip!

10. The Condom Bike Handle Cover

Keep your handles germ-free with condoms

Germs get everywhere, including on bike handles, and with many people sharing bikes (apparently), germs could be being passed around and around.

But not any more. The humble condom has another fantastic use – in the world of shared bikes, it’s being used as a bike handle cover.

We’re serious. Specialist bike shops in Barcelona are selling condom bike handle covers for the serious bikers amongst them, to help prevent the spread of germs.

With a potential swine flu epidemic on the horizon, just think how they could work for door handles…

And finally…

As condoms are so infinitely useful, why not stock up on some supplies?

1. Caught having sex in a confession box

Confessional sex

Er, yes, you did read that right. Confession boxes in Catholic churches are traditionally used to go and confess your sins, for example about having impure thoughts about sex. But one couple took things a bit further, by having sex in the confession box!

A parishioner in the Cesena cathedral in northern Italy called police after hearing strange noises, including rustling and groaning, coming from the inside of the confession box when he was attending morning Mass. When the police arrived, they pulled back the curtains surrounding the confession box and revealed a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex.

The rather dubious excuse for their behaviour was that they were atheists, so for them, ‘having sex in church is like doing it any other place.’ Yeah, right. Not surprisingly, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesana-Sarsina wasn’t convinced and planned to have a special ceremony to purify the confession box after their behaviour.

2. Caught having sex on the Queen’s lawn at Windsor Castle

Sex on the menu at Queen's des res

One British couple had a right royal romp, on no less than the Queen’s lawns at Windsor Castle!

Yes, it’s true – the two tourists, both in their 30s and apparently drunk, stripped their clothes off in broad daylight and in full view of other tourists, and had sex on the Queen’s lawn. Clearly ignoring all of the polite, “Please Keep Off The Grass,” signs dotted around the Windsor Castle lawns, the pair were blissfully ignorant of the attention they gained as they indulged in their sexual act.

Other tourists stopped to watch, videoing their sexual activities and taking photos, the Irish Guard sentries opened the windows of their barracks and cheered them on and genteel hotel guests from across the road couldn’t believe the sight before them.

The sexual action is believed to have continued for 10 to 15 minutes, before uniformed and armed Royal Protection Squad Officers arrived on the scene and arrested the pair.

The couple were kept in cells overnight and then cautioned the next day for outraging public decency.
 

3. Caught having sex in a garbage dumpster

Hmm, how about here for a spot of sex?

It certainly can’t win the award for the most romantic place to have sex. In fact, you’ve got to wonder what on earth they were thinking of

Whilst most people happily dump their rubbish into garbage dumpsters, one couple merrily jumped in too and had sex in there!

The couple were found in British Columbia when an officer heard strange noises coming from the inside of a large garbage dumpster. He initially called out, but got no response, so went to investigate. When he shined his torch in, the light revealed a completely nude couple actively engaged in sex.

Not surprisingly, the outcome was that the officer ordered them to disentangle, put their clothes on and get out of the dumpster.

4. Caught having sex on a BMW car

Sex on the hood, anyone?

Not everyone is lucky enough to win the lottery, but things went a bit downhill for this lotto winner when he was caught in a sexual act with his new road companion.

After winning $3.9m in the lotto, one chap in Canada clearly spend some of his winnings by splashing out on a luxury BMW M5 sedan car. However, one night when he was out on the town, he decided to pull up his car and have sex with a woman on the hood of his car.

All in all, not one of his luckiest days, but another he’ll probably remember, if only for very different reasons than his win.

5. Caught having sex on the beach

Sexy beach action

On the surface, it doesn’t sound that crazy. There’s something about having sex on the beach that many people aspire to (probably encouraged by watching too many romantic films), yet the reality of sand getting stuck in awkward places often puts people off the moment they try.

Unfortunately for one couple, they didn’t get a chance to be put off by the way grains of sand feel, as they got caught in the act first. It doesn’t sound like too big a deal, but when you’re having sex on a beach in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, where public decency rules, it sure is.

The two Brits who were caught romping on the Dubai beach faced more than just cautions – sex on the beach led to them being fined and imprisoned for three months. The woman, who was allegedly on top when they were caught, also lost her job as a result of it, fired because she violated a decency clause in her contract.

There’s a clear moral in this story – be careful what you do in Dubai, and especially where you act upon your sexual urges!

If you like this, have a read of 15 more of the funniest places to be caught having sex.

It’s not an unusual to get a sudden urge to have sex, but it’s not quite so usual for people to have a sudden urge for sex with a weird object. That, however, is what does occasionally happen, like the scene in American Pie where the character Jim Levenstein tries out sex with an apple pie!

Some horny souls not only have sex with weird objects, but they’re unlucky enough to get caught in the act. We’ve rounded up true stories of eight of the weirdest objects to be caught having sex with.

1. Caught having sex with a picnic table

One American man clearly has quite a penchant for sex with objects, as he was caught having sex with a picnic table on at least four different occasions. His neighbour, who filmed him performing with the picnic table, said the incidents took place in broad daylight in the town of Bellevue in Ohio.

Sex with a picnic table?

The nude man apparently picked a favourite metal picnic table and used the hole where the sun umbrella usually sits to have sex with it (novel, eh?). However, he was unfortunately caught – and the video evidence was rather damning – and he faced several charges of public indecency.

2. Caught having sex with a fence

Metal fence

Being drunk was the excuse for this poor man, who allegedly attempted to have sex with a fence in the West End of London. The man was out drinking in central London, when he announced that he was going to have sex with a fence. He subsequently got decidedly up close and personal with a metal fence in Leicester Square Gardens, but was arrested by police for being drunk and disorderly.

3. Caught having sex with a bicycle

For one Scottish chap, it was his beloved bicycle which he yearned to ride – just not in the conventional way. Dubbed a ‘cycle-sexualist’ he was caught having sex with his bicycle whilst staying at a hostel, naked from the waist down.

Fancy a ride?

Two cleaners caught him in a compromising position with his bike and witnessed his avid hip moving sexual act. He’s now been separated from his bike and put on probation for three years.

4. Caught having sex with a lamp post

Best known for being a great source of light and a favourite place for dogs to urinate against, it’s perhaps not exactly normal to think of lamp posts as a great object to have sex with. But one man did.

Lamp post - do you find it attractive?

He was caught having sex with a lamppost in the town of Westbury, in Wiltshire, UK. Police were called to the scene after he was scene loitering and acting suspiciously in the area and, when they arrived, they caught him in the act of having sex with the post.

5. Caught having sex with a Henry Hoover

The quirkily named Henry Hoover’s are best known as being the smiley faced, red and black portable vacuum cleaners used in homes and offices worldwide. But one Polish worker in the UK clearly got a bit too attracted to Henry’s smiley face and long hose.

Henry Hoover - full of sex appeal?

The building contractor was caught having sex with Henry the Hoover in a hospital staff canteen. Thankfully it was out of hours, but the security guard that caught him was more than a tad surprised to see Henry being used in such a way.

It’s also handy to try and come up with an excuse for such behaviour, but would you believe that that the chap claimed he was cleaning his underpants and that it was common to do it in that way in Poland?! Nah, it doesn’t really cut it, does it?

6. Caught having sex with a pasta jar….whilst driving

A man in New South Wales, Australia, discovered a new use for a pasta jar. Not only great for storing pasta, but it seems some jars could be good for having sex with too.

Something for you?

But the man got caught with his new obsession, after trying it out whilst driving. Police initially saw him acting suspiciously in his car and thought he may have a weapon in his lap. After a police chase, when he refused to stop the car, they caught up with him and discovered a pasta jar around his penis. The man clearly didn’t want to stop his sexual action and was said to, “continue pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling.”

Eventually, after using batons and capsicum spray, the police did manage to get him out of the car (and, I guess, the jar off his penis), and he was arrested and fined.

7. Caught having sex with a pavement

Most of us are happy merely walking on them, but one man in the UK loved pavements so much that he wanted to have sex with them too.

Pavement sex, anyone?

It wasn’t just a single, once-in-a-blue-moon moment either – he was seen on several occasions lying semi-naked on pavements having sex with the concrete. Not surprisingly, his outdoor pavement romps didn’t go down too well with the law, and he was jailed for 18 months.

His sentence didn’t quite change his antics though, as he was subsequently back in court a few years later, on charges for simulating sex with black plastic dustbin bags!

8. Having sex with a (lot of) cars

The love of cars has been taken to a whole new level, by this man, from Washington. Although he’s not been caught in the act as such, according to him, he’s bedded a grand total of 999 cars – and that doesn’t just involve stroking and cleaning them.

Cars, cars, cars

The man admits he’s had a lifelong sexual desire for cars and first had sex with a car at the age of 15. As well as cars, he’s also had a sexual experience with a helicopter!

It may seem rather on the weird side, but being sexually attracted to cars isn’t entirely unknown. In fact, people who experience sexual desire for cars or other machines are termed mechaniphiliacs.