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

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. Easy Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because the men who don't like condoms are dicks?

  2. Remember everyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This money is part of the $1T Porkulus package. This is what happens when politicians fix things.

  3. How much do you think AIDS costs society? by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 0, Troll

    Such short sightedness, you gotta be a Repub.

  4. Re:Here it is for 5c by MrCrassic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have you tried masterbating with a condom on? This really, really helps relieve the sensitivity issue.

  5. Re:Perhaps by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    You think that's bad, wait for alimony and child support. High end prostitutes are cheap by comparison. (I actually saw a cost breakdown about that, showing cost per act of coitus with a high end prostitute vs. an ex wife. Sad, really)

    Move to a country where you can just buy her from her father?

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  6. Re:Are you serious? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    only the stupid fucks that dont get a vasectomy.

    you little girly men that think getting snipped makes you less of a man, good god take off your fucking skirt and get your Vas snipped and stapled.

    you bunch of girly ass pussies.

  7. Par for the course by copponex · · Score: 0, Troll

    400 grand is less than a minute of military spending the United States. But no one is allowed to mention that fact in the "liberal" media.

    Can anyone explain to me how killing a suspected terrorist and their neighbors with a few hundred thousand dollars of ammunition is a better investment than this study? Anyone?

  8. Re:Here it is for 5c by cenc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hot Chick: Do me! Do me!
    Geek: I don't have a condom
    Hot Chick: I don't care. Just do me!!
    Geek: O.k.

    Yea, logic does suck.

  9. Re:Here it is for 5c by Jack9 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're an idiot.

    What it comes down to is only uninformed, ignorant fools still speak in absolute terms about medical procedures.

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  10. Re:Cheaper than treating AIDS for 1 1/2 people by genner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Letting them die costs nothing.

    Burying a person is expensive too.

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

    You're an idiot.

    No, that would be you.

    Infantile phimosis, which is a partial blockage of urination due to a narrowed opening (not a complete blockage) is treated with topical steroidal cream, or (as a last resort) minor corrective surgery to enlarge the opening.

    So because there is one condition that doesn't require circumcision, that means that all conditions don't require it?

    Logic. You fail it.

  12. Re:It's wrong by Xcruciate · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holy shit, no wonder you guys don't get laid. The discussion is about why men don't like wearing condoms, and you break it down into a mathamatical proof. Not so sexy.

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