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Condoms 'too big' for Indian men
BBC News, Delhi ^ | Damian Grammaticus

Posted on 12/08/2006 2:21:02 PM PST by Kitten Festival

There is a "lack of awareness" over condom sizes A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms.

It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India.

The two-year study was carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last millimetre.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


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The BBC's highest reader count for its stories is this one, this is their big front page story.

It just goes to show that when sex is commodified, people start taking measurements in inches. Fortunately, unlike Europe, India doesn't seem to have any trouble making babies.

1 posted on 12/08/2006 2:21:08 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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Oh this thread is going to be a good one. (If it doesn't get pulled).


2 posted on 12/08/2006 2:21:50 PM PST by ElkGroveDan ( What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?)
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To: ElkGroveDan

My mind has expanded to encompass the situation at hand


3 posted on 12/08/2006 2:22:58 PM PST by woofie (This area deemed a failure, Something new and witty will no doubt emerge)
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To: ElkGroveDan

It got booted over to from front page to general/chat, but that's because the editors here have a more serious idea of what news is than the BBC.


4 posted on 12/08/2006 2:23:02 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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As I recall, it doesn't look that way on Indian temple friezes. But maybe those are gods.


5 posted on 12/08/2006 2:23:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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This has so much potential for politically incorrect comments it stretches my imagination.


6 posted on 12/08/2006 2:23:52 PM PST by pwatson
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Big Brother says:

One size must fit all.


It not too big, maybe Indian men's wee-wee too small. Therefore, they must modify to make big brother standard fit.
7 posted on 12/08/2006 2:24:11 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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Lord grant me the serenity to accept the size I cannot change, the courage to change the size I can and the wisdom to figure out what Im talking about


8 posted on 12/08/2006 2:25:08 PM PST by woofie (This area deemed a failure, Something new and witty will no doubt emerge)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Ghandi used to sleep with two virgins. Now we know why they were safe...
9 posted on 12/08/2006 2:26:58 PM PST by Jagman (I drank François Rabelais under the table!)
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To: Kitten Festival

I just got an e-mail that may help the situation...


10 posted on 12/08/2006 2:27:24 PM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: Kitten Festival

finger cots should do


11 posted on 12/08/2006 2:27:49 PM PST by Lexington Green
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Hmmm. It must be all that outsourcing that caused this problem. All those Americans yelling at them.


12 posted on 12/08/2006 2:28:07 PM PST by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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My mom has one of those rubber thimble type-things... Maybe someone could use that!


13 posted on 12/08/2006 2:29:08 PM PST by Silly (Not being... Silly)
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To: Kitten Festival

I hope Indian men don't get too upset over this.

I'd hate to see them go off half-cocked.


14 posted on 12/08/2006 2:39:19 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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Send them a half million of our largest condoms, label them " Small".


15 posted on 12/08/2006 2:43:13 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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No wonder the Kama Sutra was written. They had to make allowances up somewhere to make up for the shortcomings.
16 posted on 12/08/2006 2:48:19 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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The whole issue makes me wonder if the Chinese commiserate.


17 posted on 12/08/2006 2:55:14 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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"that were shorter than international standards.."

What standards are we talking about? ASME, Stoomwezen or perhaps DIN?


18 posted on 12/08/2006 3:44:44 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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Well, I never would have believed it, but there is a wiki on the subject.
"World Health Organization specifies 5.3 cm wide condoms for Africa, 5.2 cm wide condoms for Europe, and 4.9 cm condoms for Asia."
Somehow a scene from "Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo" comes to mind.


19 posted on 12/08/2006 3:59:37 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: Kitten Festival

You're lucky, the mods gave another a time out for a day for posting this earlier, but then again, they put it in breaking.


20 posted on 12/08/2006 4:03:03 PM PST by kenth (I wish compassionate conservatives were more compassionate to conservatism.)
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