Your balls never have to feel left out when you roll on a condom again. The creators of Scroguard—a latex brief that claims to protect your full pelvic region from skin-to-skin transferrable STDs like herpes, HPV, and syphilis—have got your boys covered. 

Go ahead. Take a second to look at the photo above. We’ll wait.  

It's glorious, right? Now on to the important question: Is this thing actually useful? 

“It’s a good idea in theory. The more surface area covered, the more protection provided,” says Peter Leone, M.D., professor of medicine and infectious diseases at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “But there’s just no data on this product. The real issue is how often it’s going to be used, if it’s going to be used properly, and if men will even wear it.”

Scroguard hasn’t been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yet, but that hasn’t stopped an infomercial for the product from going viral. In the slightly NSFW clip, digitized humans engage in a Scroguard love-making session, like a really kinky version of The Sims. 

“Part of the skin of your genital area has a cover, but most is still exposed to your lover,” announces the infomercial narrator. “Not anymore.” Cue the explosion. (We’re not joking. It’s epic.) 

The video suggests wearing Scroguard under your clothes so the only break in the action is when you slip on the condom and tuck it into the penis hole in the brief. The brief is disposable or washable, which Dr. Leone says could work, but there’s a risk of contaminating yourself when you take it off and not getting it completely clean—like trying to wash a condom. And there’s no guarantee that Scroguard, which runs you $19.99 for one brief, can fully protect you. 

“Sex is messy,” Dr. Leone says. “There are bodily fluids all over the place. And the idea of telling people they can never have skin-to-skin contact seems a little absurd.”  

Until doctors vet the Scroguard, there's really no need to rock a latex man-thong. So what can you do to avoid genital herpes and other nasty diseases? Check out our definitive guide to STDs to see how to lower your odds for each one.