• Detroit News, Thursday, October 25, 2007 12 PM

Body paints and more have discreetly slipped into health-and-beauty aisles at grocers and pharmacies in metro Detroit over the past few months as some of the nation's leading condom makers hope customers wanting to spice up their love lives will toss sexual aids into their shopping carts.

Stores stocking the items include Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, Target and Wal-Mart. While retailers were shy about discussing the racy products, several said they hadn't received any complaints and noted that they wouldn't devote space to items that weren't in demand.

"America is aging, and people are staying sexually active much longer," says Carol Carrozza, vice president of marketing for New Jersey-based Ansell Healthcare, parent company of Lifestyles, the nation's No. 2 condom brand. She says the new devices constitute the fastest-growing segment of the 35-year-old company's business.

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