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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. Thank F*ck by Elitist_Phoenix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Finally our tax dollars doing something useful :-P

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  2. Re:Here it is for 5c by cayenne8 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "I don't care what the studies say; Getting your partner tested for STDs before having sex with them doesn't require removing a piece of your own body and is even more effective at preventing the spread of STDs."

    Whew...talk about a romance KILLER!!

    Lol...and someone above complained about having to stop in the middle of getting all worked up, to put a rubber on...

    You get all worked up...and then ask her to take some tests? LOL...can you keep it up till you get the results back from the lab!??!

    Wow, sorry, but you just caught me off guard, never heard of anyone having a potential partner tested first. I'd just have to guess that really cuts down on the number of partners you can get, no? How many women are gonna want to submit to that before you ever get them in the sack?

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  3. Because.... by Techman83 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are Jews in the world.
    There are Buddhists.
    There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
    There are those that follow Mohammed, but
    I've never been one of them.

    I'm a Roman Catholic,
    And have been since before I was born,
    And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
    They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

    You don't have to be a six-footer.
    You don't have to have a great brain.
    You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
    A Catholic the moment Dad came,

    Because

    Every sperm is sacred.
    Every sperm is great.
    If a sperm is wasted,
    God gets quite irate.

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  4. Re:Easy Answer by RotHorseKid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey, I have a latex fetish, you insensitive clod!

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