That condom may soon be the only thing left in your wallet.
Safe sex is about to get much more expensive due to a 65 percent increase in the price of rubber over the past year, according to the Financial Times.
Disappointing rubber harvests due to heavier than normal rains in Asia are largely to blame.
Condom prices are somewhat elastic, but the price of natural rubber surpassed its previous high in 1952, when anxiety about the spread of the Korean War incited panic buying.
Rubber, which was trading just over $1 in 2008, last week reached $4.05 a kilogram.
Adam Glickman of Condomania, one of the nation’s largest condom retailers, said prophylactic prices jumped up to 20 percent in the past year.
The higher natural rubber prices were also expected to inflate the prices of car tires and rubber gloves.