I misunderstood you.
When I was talking about the pill and condoms, I was meaning in the bigger, wider, more general world of human sexuality.
Condoms make great sense as an option on the individual level, I just meant that they were not a culture changing type device, as of course we know, after a few hundred years of having them available.
I would think that most of us have tried them out during our lives, and gave up on them.