Condoms a big problem for men in India
Most men's penises are an inch too short for popular prophylactics
Updated: 12:53 p.m. PT Dec 11, 2006
NEW DELHI - Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 1 inch shorter than those condoms catered for.
For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 2 inches. A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn't do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.
"One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis," the council's Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.
Puri said many men in India, which has the world's highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms.
"We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs," he said.
The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story "Indian men don't measure up."
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Ouch! Thats hard to admit.
that is a good excuse to skip the condom.
*note to self - cancel excursion to India as soon as possible*
Some high class outfit with an eye to exploitation of the idle rich will eventually start producing made to measure varieties.
Notice that the article did not say that Indian penises are small, per se, but that the condoms are too big. Semantics? Hardly!
The fact is that whenever scientists have taken official measurements (as opposed to self-reported measurements), they have found that that the average penis is too small for a standard condom, which apparently is 7.5":
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The Germans had the same experience as the Indians back in 2003:
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The Wessels et al study conducted in America concluded that the average penis is only 5.0" long (refer to Footnote #3):
[A href="http://www.answers.com/topic/human-penis-size#wp-_note-Wessells"]http://www.answers.com/topic/human-penis-size#wp-_note-Wessells[/A]
Getting back to the Indians, if 60% of them are too small for standard condoms, one can infer that 40% (almost half) of Indian men are packing more than 7.5"!
So "QE" this is experience from NY talking? What ethnicities are you taking population samples from?
> Getting back to the Indians, if 60% of them are too small for standard condoms, one can infer that 40% (almost half) of Indian men are packing more than 7.5"!
Maybe Liz will change her mind about the trip to India after reading that.
Hell she might even be earlybooking... [A onclick="addImg('icon/icon_smile_big.gif')" href="jvascript:void(0)"](http://www.discovervancouver.com/forum/icon_smile_big.gif)[/A]
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So "QE" this is experience from NY talking? What ethnicities are you taking population samples from?[/DIV]
I was just merely trying to illustrate that the study is more or less junk science. Remember how Bush accused Gore of using "fuzzy math" and "phony numbers" during the 2000 election? Believe it or not, Bush actually had a point. There's no way that 40% of Indian men are bigger than 7.5", but I was just showing how one can spin the results of the study to make Indian men appear either large or small.
The only way to truly find out who's bigger or smaller is to have the same people measure different races using the same methodology.
Perhaps tenkani could investigate this as his PhD dissertation?
Queer Eye wrote: [div]I was just merely trying to illustrate that the study is more or less junk science. Remember how Bush accused Gore of using "fuzzy math" and "phony numbers" during the 2000 election?
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Yeah, I remember Lush Rimjob ad his "statistics". Utter crapola.
You're up early. Can't sleep or just an early riser?
(I get up at 4am, not because I want to, but to talk/webcam with my sweetie who is in Cambodia. My 4am is her 7pm, when she gets off work.)