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Bill Gates Offers $100K to Design a Better Condom
Newser ^ | 03/25/2013 | Kevin Spak

Posted on 03/25/2013 10:31:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Bill Gates is on a mission to make safe sex better. Gates' foundation is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can come up with a plan for making a more pleasurable condom that more men will actually want to use, NBC News reports. Condoms are cheap and effective, the foundation said in a statement, but they also decrease pleasure for men. "Is it possible to develop a product without this stigma, or better, one that is felt to enhance pleasure?" it asks.

To snag the cash, applicants will have to come up with a proposal for a "Next Generation Condom," or technologies that might help in such a thing. From there, they'll have to show a clear testable hypothesis and data to move on to potential Phase II funding—which could net them as much as $1 million. The hope is that more widely used condoms could reduce the spread of AIDS in places like Africa; the new designs must be inexpensive enough to work in "a developing world setting."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billgates; condom
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Only $100,000? How cheap. This from a man who has funnelled BILLIONS of dollars to fund abortions.
1 posted on 03/25/2013 10:31:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think your best bet is to keep it zipped. OK. Where’s my money?


2 posted on 03/25/2013 10:32:30 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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A better condom would be one that is body sized to fit a pint-sized little NAZI named Michael Bloomberg. Complete with eye and mouth slits.


3 posted on 03/25/2013 10:33:34 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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Q: Why is it that Africa is the only place on earth that AIDs is spread through heterosexual sex?

Hint: Because it’s not spread through heterosexual sex!


4 posted on 03/25/2013 10:34:40 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wish he would have spent a bit more money on Windows.


5 posted on 03/25/2013 10:35:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Responsibility2nd

In the mind of a true liberal, that’s the answer to aids. No true liberal would ever think of telling the natives to practice heterosexual monogamy.


6 posted on 03/25/2013 10:38:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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“condom that more men will actually want to use”

How does he propose to put a life size model of Kate Upton in a vending machine?

Better yet, how about a condom that stops working, and when you call for help they say, “may we suggest you do a clean install.”


7 posted on 03/25/2013 10:38:29 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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Lots of these guys would like to see a condom that would entice any woman to have sex with them.


8 posted on 03/25/2013 10:38:57 AM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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Marketing has already settled on a color scheme, name and catchy acronym:

BCOP - Blue Condom Of Pleasure

9 posted on 03/25/2013 10:40:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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Q: Why is it that Africa is the only place on earth that AIDs is spread through heterosexual sex? Hint: Because it’s not spread through heterosexual sex!

Some of it thru homosexual sex. Some through heterosexual anal sex. Some because sores from untreated STD's readily allow transmission of HIV from women to men.

10 posted on 03/25/2013 10:41:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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Margaret Sanger looked for a better condom too, and she ended up sleeping with the inventor of birth control pills.


11 posted on 03/25/2013 10:41:32 AM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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Bill, I'd like to have my reward money paid in used silver coins, please.


12 posted on 03/25/2013 10:41:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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Better condoms? Bill, is that one of your priorities? Well, maybe with more enticing condoms that do not hinder the pleasure factor, there will be less women saying “Who’s my baby daddy?”


13 posted on 03/25/2013 10:43:37 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (1st commandment THOU SHALT NOT BELIEVE THY GOVERNMENT)
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i thought this guy was supposed to be giving zillions of dineros to good causes like fighting cancer or eliminating smallpox?


14 posted on 03/25/2013 10:43:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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Want a condom that is 100% effective against AIDS? Simply, design it to burst into flames when it comes into contact with fecal matter.


15 posted on 03/25/2013 10:44:23 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Q: Why is it that Africa is the only place on earth that AIDs is spread through heterosexual sex?

Because anal sex is very common, whether man-man or man-woman. Apparently prostitution is wide spread and practiced by a large percentage of married women, but anal sex is the norm in such situations for reasons either birth control or a weird sense of propriety.

16 posted on 03/25/2013 10:48:29 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Complete with eye and mouth slits.

Kinda defeats the purpose, don't you think?

17 posted on 03/25/2013 10:50:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is a reminder to me that being a billionaire is a curse from God. What a shallow and empty life this man leads.


18 posted on 03/25/2013 10:50:04 AM PDT by Truth2012
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“...The hope is that more widely used condoms ...”

Multiple use condoms????


19 posted on 03/25/2013 10:50:19 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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This is retarded.

There must be a dozen companies that already make condoms and have an interest in achieving the goals set out in this proposal.

The proposal suggests that these companies are not or haven’t dedicated their entire enterprise to making their product more “user friendly”.

And they have tens of millions of dollars for R&D.


20 posted on 03/25/2013 10:53:11 AM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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