Posted on 02/23/2022 3:23:08 PM PST by Ennis85
For the first time, U.S. regulators have officially authorized a condom to be used for anal sex, not just vaginal sex.
The decision, announced by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, has long been sought by sexual health experts, who said it could encourage more people who engage in anal sex to use condoms to protect themselves against H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections.
The risk of sexually transmitted diseases is “significantly higher” during anal sex than vaginal sex, an F.D.A. official said Wednesday. But until now, there has not been enough data to show that condoms are safe and effective during anal sex.
“The F.D.A.’s authorization of a condom that is specifically indicated, evaluated and labeled for anal intercourse may improve the likelihood of condom use during anal intercourse,” Courtney Lias, director of the F.D.A. office that issued the approval, said in a statement.
The decision applies to a condom manufactured by Global Protection Corp. called the ONE male condom. Last year, the company asked the F.D.A. to allow it to add anal sex to the intended use of the condom on the product label, based on a study showing the failure rate, defined as slippage or breakage, to be less than 1 percent during anal sex.
The F.D.A. said in the statement that other condom companies would now be able to apply for similar approval by submitting claims that their condoms demonstrated “substantial equivalence” to the evidence shown for ONE condoms.
“I don’t think this is viewed as something that should be restricted, but rather something that opens the door for other companies to rigorously assess their condoms and show that they also perform well for anal sex,” said Aaron Siegler, an epidemiologist at Emory University who helped lead the study that prompted the F.D.A. decision.
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I can finally sleep well…
Something tells me this thread is not going to end well.
Lots of progress under the Democrats.
I think you’re right.
Condoms have a high method use failure, meaning, they are frequently omitted, and there are practices in which participants get a thrill from not using them. There are organisms which are not excluded by the condom barrier. Farah Fawcett got painful, lethal anal cancer after only two anal sex sessions. Who are the researchers who think this is a worthy goal?
Sorry, this is just crap.
OMG did you REALLY have to post this, disgusting!!!
Damn when I was growing up we only had to worry about one.
Now two. It will make our billfolds budge more.
I worked with a lot of gay guys in graphics depts at investment banks.
A few really had just one partner.
85 percent didn’t.
80ish percent were nice guys.
90ish percent did a LOT more than just anal sex...can’t go into it here.
I worked in an office with them. Trust me, I did not want to hear what I heard.
You couldn’t think up in your sickest nightmares what sex acts are involved.
And I can’t tell you cause I’ll either got thrown off or you’ll throw up or both.
80 percent were nice guys.
a LOT more than 20 percent would likely be dead without the aids cocktail.
Being a “nice guy” doesn’t save you from actions you take in your life.
I know what many are thinking...they are sinners and not nice guys.
I’ll leave that to God.
But I do know that those anal sex condoms aren’t gonna do much at all to slow HIV
Ship some to Putin before he rides Joey.
If Trump had devoted his time to issues like this, instead of nonsense like protecting our national borders and making America energy independent, certain members of the MSM would have had a much different attitude toward him.
Yep ‘New/Activism’... We gotta keep up with
the goings on in society.
Our Values Democracy in action. They hate us for our freedoms, dontcha know.
Once again, we need to take back the language the Left keeps abusing.
If they run television ads for this product, what will the slogan be?
No, it’s not The Bee.
Amazing how they keep encouraging the very behavior that causes it. They don’t care about people’s health.
Wasn’t prepared to see that.
FOTFLMAO
And then there’s Buttplug and that awful lipstick wearing guy appointed director of national security. I see a large billboard in their futures.
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