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Christopher

Christopher

Portland, OR
November 2002

JAN 04, 2005 11:25 PM

The publisher of Consumer Reports will be publishing an issue that tests and highlights various condoms. The brand that took the hardest beating? Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex. Unfortunately, the condom distributed by Planned Parenthood performed the worst.

Other top-performers include the Durex Performax Lubricated, Lifestyles Classic Collection Ultra Sensitive Lubricated and TheyFit Lubricated. […]

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.

jake_lex

jake_lex

Lexington, KY
February 2003

JAN 05, 2005 04:31 PM

Hmmm, it stretches to be 3 feet long and a foot wide?

Yeah, that should fit properly then.

tongue tongue tongue

misguidedd

misguidedd

Edmonton, AB
November 2003

JAN 05, 2005 05:08 PM

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.

penn519

penn519

Charlotte, NC
June 2004

JAN 05, 2005 05:37 PM

wow. they give the durex condoms out at the health center at my school. great...

Nosirrah

Nosirrah

United Kingdom
December 2004

JAN 05, 2005 06:07 PM



misguided said:

...what they need to do to test condoms is to put them on an average-sized dildo and do a spot friction test...



I think maybe you should indulge in longer foreplay first if you think a spot friction test is that much more applicable. LOL wink

Nescafe

Nescafe

Winter Park, FL
June 2003

JAN 05, 2005 09:47 PM

I thought creating spot friction WAS foreplay??

katiebarthedoor

katiebarthedoor

Louisville, KY
December 2004

JAN 05, 2005 10:12 PM

no, foreplay is unzipping. blackeyed

Corruptive

Corruptive

San Jose, CA
February 2004

JAN 06, 2005 09:08 AM

The only important test:

davemo

davemo

Minneapolis, MN
January 2004

JAN 06, 2005 09:10 AM

foreplay?