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Rush covered this on yesterday's show.
Are you a closet Dittohead, Blaze?
So to speak...
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...lth_condoms_dc
Condom Testing Reveals Best Brands
Tue Jan 4, 6:02 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The consumers group best known for rating cars and washing machines has turned its testing prowess to condoms to find out which ones measure up best and how other birth control methods compare.
The nonprofit Consumers Union says in a new guide to contraception that the seven top U.S. types of condom they studied did not burst despite vigorous testing, and all models met international standards.
But results showed that the top brand, able to take the most punishment, was the Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex, according to the report.
Other top-performers include the Durex Performax Lubricated, Lifestyles Classic Collection Ultra Sensitive Lubricated and TheyFit Lubricated.
A melon-colored model distributed by Planned Parenthood performed the worst, bursting during a test in which the latex condoms were filled with air.
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.
The New York-based organization, which publishes the Consumer Reports magazine, also tested 16 other contraceptive choices.
"Condoms remain the only family planning and pregnancy prevention method that can help prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV (news - web sites), which causes AIDS (news - web sites)," the group, which has issued similar reports on condoms periodically since 1979, said in a statement.
"Condoms have improved since the mid-nineties because industry manufacturing standards have become more universally used and more effective," added Edward Kippel, who led the condom test project.
Intrauterine devices or IUDs have also become safer than in previous years, as have birth control pills, including so-called emergency contraception, the group said.
While abstinence has a 0 percent failure rate, doing nothing to prevent pregnancy has an 85 percent failure rate, the group found.
A U.S. government report published last month shows 98 percent of all U.S. women who have had sex have used birth control.
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Rush covered this on yesterday's show.
Are you a closet Dittohead, Blaze?
Glad I don't have to fill my condoms with air!
Nope. I'm a Farker.Rush covered this on yesterday's show.
Are you a closet Dittohead, Blaze?
In unrelated news...
Trojans proven to be 100% effective in ing Oklahomans.
"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.
I think the pregnancy prevention rate of a condom that would fail this particular test would be somewhere around 99.9%. I can't speak for all women, but if a penis that could blow out that much air or be big enough to stretch that out until it burst was coming at me (pun intended?), I'd run like a mofo.
I'm calling BS at the next GTG.but if a penis that could blow out that much air or be big enough to stretch that out until it burst coming at me, I'd run like a mofo.
3 feet tall and 1 foot wide and not run?!?
I'm Christy **n*i*, not Christy Canyon.
The Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex is now my condom of choice because I like to hit it good.
I'm calling BS at the next GTG.
Shenanigans!
I'm married, which means I not only PRACTICE abstinence, I'm pretty much the Matt Leinart of abstinence.
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