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The group says its review of contraceptives was not politically motivated, although there is an intense debate among health professionals and advocacy groups about the focus on abstinence-only education by the Bush administration.
"We plan our testing programs quite a while in advance. This is purely accidental," said senior editor Nancy Metcalf.
Consumers Union uses standardized tests to rate the products it examines, which for latex condoms involves filling them with air. There is no accepted method to test silicon or non-latex condoms.
"You end up with a balloon 3 feet tall and a foot wide. They can really stretch an amazing amount," Metcalf said in a telephone interview.
An out-of-work Appalachian resident named Skeeter led the study as he was found to be an expert Volunteer Condom Tester, as his beer-stained t-shirt proclaimed.
air volume tests for condoms are stupid and useless.
you can try this with any old grocery store produce bag, for example... if you're careful and uniform about it, you can stretch it out to like twice its original length. but if you stress any particular area, they're amazingly easy to burst through.
what they need to do to test condoms is to put them on an average-sized dildo and do a spot friction test. that mihgt yield some USEFUL data about spot cohesion.
bah.
Christopher
Portland, OR
November 2002
JAN 04, 2005 11:25 PM