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NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms

Posted by samzenpus on from the as-obvious-as-the-rubber-nose-on-your-face dept.

The National Institutes of Health has given $423,500 to researchers at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to figure out why men don't like to wear condoms. The institute will also study why men have trouble using condoms and investigate "penile erection and sensitivity during condom application." "The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems," reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.

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  1. More FOX then News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The article is more FOX then news, as if focuses on the people complaining about it. This is the network who's only endorsed form of sex-ed is abstinence "education."

    You might be quibling on the pricetag, but if this could increase condom use it could have incredible healthcare benefits. And you know what, ultra-right-wing pundits?, greater condom use = less abortions; pick your f-ing battles.

  2. Re:Here it is for 5c by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    at least half the population has gotten the message, and there are some hospitals (like UCSD) where you can't get newborns circumcised at all.

    If that's the case, then US healthcare has fallen even farther than I though possible. I would hate to think that boys who can't urinate because their foreskin blocks the urethra opening would be able to get a circumcision so they don't die, but hey, if you say they can't get them at all, what do I know?