broken condom… ROFL?

by Violet Blue on August 17, 2009

A broken condom is never a reason to ROFL. Unless you’re the Molecular and Cell Biology graduate students at UC Berkeley who dictate the gratuitous ROFL-age at NCBI ROFL. Their recent post Those are the [condom] breaks highlights the “laboratory coital model” used to test condom breakage in a PubMed.gov study enlighteningly titled “Male condoms that break in use do so mostly by a “blunt puncture” mechanism.” But after one look at the study text and all I have to say is:

“Over a period of 7 years, broken condoms returned to a supplier (SSL, Durex) via consumer complaints were examined to determine the cause of failure.”

WTF?

Who returns condoms. And — why, gods, why!?

Violet Blue

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{ 5 comments }

1 ChicksonSpeedSpotter August 19, 2009 at 5:52 am

“Who returns condoms” lol lol lol i love america you ppl are crazy

2 h4nd August 18, 2009 at 4:07 pm

To improve them for others… it’s an icky, practical altruistic action…

3 Mitch August 18, 2009 at 2:58 pm

That’s a pretty round orifice there. Must be simulating anal sex.

4 Alex August 18, 2009 at 5:58 am

PubMed is just an aggregator of papers. This article was published in the Elsevier journal Contraception.

5 UnderpantsGnome August 17, 2009 at 11:03 pm

hahaha, I dunno. Personally I peel what’s left off, toss it on the floor and suit up again. No need to stop now.

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